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Film · Warner Bros. · 1959

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Rio Bravo

66Worth an evening.

Worth an evening. He will not be bought, and he cannot hold the jail alone.

The review

A sheriff arrests a killer whose brother has the money to hire the town. He is offered the easy version, which is to let the man go and call it peace. He refuses, and then he does the other hard thing: he accepts help from a drunk, a kid, and an old man the powerful people do not count. A woman who works in the saloon is a person in the strategy, not a reward at the end. The film takes its time. The time is the point. A siege is mostly waiting and judging who you can trust.

I would put this on before the westerns that think a fast draw is a personality. Ask why he turns down the first offers of help and takes the later ones. The answer is about whether the help is a way of buying him. A house can use that distinction the next time a favor comes with a string. One of the best of these years, and quieter than its reputation. The quiet is the confidence.

Journal

Keep Rio Bravo in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 66. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety is the thin one.

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

High Noon

74 instead of 66

High Noon is still a western film, and it scores 74 instead of 66. What you gain is courage: He walks the street alone.

The eight

8
Industry
Keeping a prisoner, deputizing, and waiting out a siege are the job, done plainly.
5
Household
A deputy who drinks, a young gun, an old man, and a woman. The jail becomes the house.
4
Piety
Duty is the piety. He will not hand a prisoner to a rich man for peace.
8
Courage
He stays in a town where the brother's money has hired the other side.
8
Republic
The debt is the definition of the job: the town gets a law, or it gets a man with a payroll.
6
Temperance
The film is leisurely and does not confuse leisure with indifference.
7
Truth
The offer to let the prisoner go is a bribe, and nobody decent pretends it is a compromise.
7
Stewardship
A house inherits a man who will take help and will not take money.

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Film · Prime Video · 2012

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ParaNorman

66Worth an evening.

Fear faced by understanding, not by a spear. Good for a child who can take a ghost.

The review

Norman is bullied for a gift that is mostly the willingness to hear. The town prefers a mob and a story about a witch. The film's turn, that the cursed child was a frightened child and the curse was the town's, is the right turn. It does not ask you to pretend the dead are cute from the first minute. It asks you to stop the torch.

Some of the jokes are ruder than the fable needs. The fable holds. A house can watch it near Halloween and come out less eager to chant at the odd boy. That is a rare result for a cartoon with zombies.

Journal

Keep ParaNorman in the record.