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Film · Affirm · 2019

Overcomer

Overcomer

68Worth an evening.

Identity as a gift, not a mood. Earnest again, and aimed at a girl who needs a name.

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The review

The coach wants a big team and is given one girl and a different sport. That humiliation is the useful part. The girl is stealing to get by and does not know the man who left. The film tells her who she is in Christ with a directness that will embarrass anyone who prefers the theme to stay symbolic. Symbolic was not going to help her.

A family can watch it. Say that a real absent father is not resolved in one meet. Then keep the assignment: a girl needs adults who stay, and she needs a name for herself that a missing parent does not get to write. If you coach, teach, or neighbor a child like that, you already have the job the film is advertising.

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Live Historic number 68. Yours can differ.

The glance

Republic is the thin one.

  1. 7Industry
  2. 8Household
  3. 8Piety
  4. 6Courage
  5. 4Republic
  6. 8Temperance
  7. 6Truth
  8. 7Stewardship

Does anyone owe a neighbor, a law, or a town — or is every person out for themselves?

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The eight

  1. 7
    Industry

    Coaching one runner is still a craft. He has to learn a sport he did not choose.

  2. 8
    Household

    A fatherless girl, a coach who has to decide if he will be present, a family of his own.

  3. 8
    Piety

    The question of who she is gets a Christian answer, said in the open.

  4. 6
    Courage

    She runs anyway. He stays in a job that shrank.

  5. 4
    Republic

    A school. The public is the meet.

  6. 8
    Temperance

    Training as restraint. Little glamour.

  7. 6
    Truth

    The revelation is tidy. The need it answers is not tidy in life.

  8. 7
    Stewardship

    What he hands her is a practice and a name that is not the absence of her father.

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Show up for one child who is not yours, on a schedule, for a month.

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Film · MGM · 1949

Battleground

Battleground

68Worth an evening.

A squad in the snow, nobody famous, and it felt closer to the war than the speeches.

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The review

Snow, a replacement, and a man who wants to go home. That is the size of the story. The Battle of the Bulge, from a squad. The work is staying in a line. The heroes are not famous. It was made soon after the war by people who knew the cold. Older teens. Leave the wounds alone.

I recognized the fellow who wants his own kitchen more than he wants to be brave. The film does not mock him, and it does not let that want dissolve the line. Nobody rides in from headquarters to be the point. Plenty of war pictures need a great man. This one leaves the cold, the squad, and the plain fact that going home was the thing they might miss.

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The glance

Household is the thin one.

  1. 8Industry
  2. 4Household
  3. 5Piety
  4. 9Courage
  5. 8Republic
  6. 7Temperance
  7. 7Truth
  8. 6Stewardship

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

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Consider this

The Best Years of Our Lives

76 instead of 68

The Best Years of Our Lives is still a war film, and it scores 76 instead of 68. What you gain is household: The banker's children have grown, and the bombardier's wife is now a stranger.

The eight

  1. 8
    Industry

    The job is a squad in snow: a replacement, and holding the line.

  2. 4
    Household

    One soldier wants to go home, and home never becomes the scene.

  3. 5
    Piety

    Wanting his own life does not release him from the men beside him.

  4. 9
    Courage

    They risk the Bulge, which is the life and the home they would miss.

  5. 8
    Republic

    The debt is to the squad and the line, not to any famous general.

  6. 7
    Temperance

    The wish to go home is real, and it is not allowed to break the line.

  7. 7
    Truth

    No great-man tale; the picture stays with ordinary soldiers in the cold.

  8. 6
    Stewardship

    What is left is a line held by men the film refuses to make famous.

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Ask someone who was cold in a war what staying in the line took, and skip the speech.

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