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Film · United Artists · 1980

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Raging Bull

44Leave it.

The boxing is the job, and the house is what he spends.

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The review

Start at the end if you want to know what the film thinks of him. A heavier man sits alone in a dressing room, rehearsing a speech, and the fights that got him there are not offered as glory. Jake LaMotta's job is boxing. The bill is the house. Jealousy costs him his brother and his wife, and the black-and-white picture will not let the ring wash that off.

It is adult, and it is not a sports movie you put on for a pumped-up night. I recognized the boxer and still felt the film arguing with anyone who wants the wins without the room he ends in. Nobody stops him. Conscience does not walk in and save the marriage. You leave with a man who spent the people he had, which is the honest ending, and a bad reason to imitate him.

Journal

Keep Raging Bull in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 44. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

The Blind Side

54 instead of 44

The Blind Side is still a drama film, and it scores 54 instead of 44. What you gain is piety: Grace is said at a table.

The eight

8
Industry
Boxing is his job, and the film treats the ring as work rather than glory.
7
Household
Jealousy costs him his brother and his wife, and the house is the bill.
2
Piety
No conscience arrives in time to stop the jealousy or save the marriage.
4
Courage
He risks his body in fights that the film refuses to call glory.
2
Republic
The story never widens to a town, a law, or a neighbor he owes.
3
Temperance
Jealousy is never put down, and the last man is heavier and alone.
7
Truth
The lie jealousy tells is paid for with a brother, a wife, and an empty room.
2
Stewardship
What remains is a heavier man alone, rehearsing a speech in a dressing room.

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Film · Prime Video · 1951

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Alice in Wonderland

44Leave it.

Nonsense is funny until it is a government. She comes back. Good.

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The review

Wonderland is a place where authority is a temper: a queen who executes, a tea party that never ends, a caterpillar who sneers. Alice is polite and then she is done. The film's best moment is her refusal to take the queen's court as a real court. Curiosity brought her in. Judgment takes her out.

A child can enjoy the jokes. Say that the jokes are not a model of how a house or a school should run. A world that changes the rules to watch you stumble is not a wonder. It is a bully with a teapot.

Journal

Keep Alice in Wonderland in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 44. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Republic are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Peter Pan

56 instead of 44

Peter Pan is still a animation film, and it scores 56 instead of 44. What you gain is household: The ending is a return to parents, and her own future as a mother.