Film · Fox · 1915
Pass it on
Regeneration
53Watch it awake.
Walsh lets a settlement worker hope, and the street does not agree to the exit.
The review
An early gangster feature, not a giant gross. Raoul Walsh. A boy from the street becomes a gang leader. A settlement worker thinks he can leave it. A teen can watch it. I won't describe a killing. The part I can tell is the offer of a change, and what the block says back.
I wanted the worker to be right, and that want is cheap if I pretend the street agreed. It does not. A boyhood there is not a coat he drops because someone kind asked. The attempt is the courage. The bill is a neighborhood that can refuse the exit. See it as a gangster picture that doesn't sell the gang as glamour, and don't give it a kinder street than it has.
Journal
Keep Regeneration in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 53. Yours can differ.
The glance
Household and Stewardship are the thin ones.
Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
The Shawshank Redemption
65 instead of 53
The Shawshank Redemption is still a crime film, and it scores 65 instead of 53. What you gain is stewardship: He leaves a way out for a friend.
The eight
- 6Industry
Gang leadership is the trade he learns; settlement work offers the exit.
- 4Household
A boy from the street, not a parent's house; the gang becomes the home he has.
- 6Piety
A settlement worker's conscience says he can leave; that belief is the test.
- 6Courage
Leaving would cost the power he has, and the street may not allow the loss.
- 5Republic
The settlement and the street disagree on what a neighborhood owes a boy.
- 5Temperance
The change would put the gang life down; the street does not agree to that.
- 6Truth
The hope of leaving is real, and so is the street's refusal to honor it.
- 4Stewardship
An early gangster feature leaves the street in charge of whether he can change.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
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