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Film · Paramount · 1968

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Rosemary's Baby

46Watch it awake.

She is not mad. The husband already made the bargain, and the house helps him.

The review

A young wife in a New York apartment wants a baby. Her husband, an actor, makes a bargain. The neighbors bring desserts and advice, helpful in the way that fills the kitchen and leaves her no air. I will not describe the conception. Adult, and not a dare. The horror the film actually cares about is a husband and a house.

She is not mad, and no one will believe her. That stays worse than the shock, because the people nearest her have decided her word does not count. I would not put this on for anyone pregnant, or for a new marriage looking for a story about being looked after. It tells the truth about a betrayal. It does not leave you a house you would trust with a child, or a husband you would send to answer the door.

Journal

Keep Rosemary's Baby in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 46. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety 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

Gremlins

64 instead of 46

Gremlins is still a horror film, and it scores 64 instead of 46. What you gain is temperance: Cute is not a virtue.

The eight

5
Industry
Her husband is an actor, and the bargain is the use he makes of that life.
6
Household
A wife wants a baby, and the husband trades the marriage from inside the house.
3
Piety
No conscience stops him, and the helpful neighbors are not there to guard her.
6
Courage
She keeps saying what is happening when nobody in the house will believe her.
3
Republic
The neighbors owe her the truth and instead bring desserts and a closed rank.
3
Temperance
His bargain feeds a want, and the film does not show him putting that want down.
9
Truth
She is not mad, the bargain is real, and the house will not believe her.
2
Stewardship
What remains is a husband and a house that already spent her on the bargain.

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Film · United Artists · 1964

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A Hard Day's Night

46Watch it awake.

Watch it awake, or put it on for the songs and the work. Nobody is asked to become worse.

The review

They have a television appearance to make, a train to catch, and an afternoon in which the city wants pieces of them. The jokes are at the expense of managers, advertisers, and anyone who needs the boys to stand still and be a product. The songs are the work, performed as work. Nobody is asked to betray a friend. Nobody is asked to be cruel to a girl. For a phenomenon as large as this one, that is a remarkable restraint, and I will credit it.

A family can put it on. The limit is that it is a day, not a life, and a day of fame is a thin diet if it becomes the only picture of adulthood in the house. Watch the studio session and ask who in the room was doing a job seriously. Include them. The screaming outside is the decade. The work inside is the part worth keeping. A very large cultural fact of 1964. The fact is not a reason. The songs and the decency are.

Journal

Keep A Hard Day's Night in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 46. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Courage and Republic 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

Singin' in the Rain

60 instead of 46

Singin' in the Rain is still a comedy film, and it scores 60 instead of 46. What you gain is courage: Telling the public the truth.