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Film · Paramount · 1977

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Saturday Night Fever

46Watch it awake.

A clerk's only excellence is Saturday, and the film knows that is small.

The review

He's a hardware clerk in Brooklyn and the king of one disco, and only one of those is a life you could respect on a Tuesday. The dance is real skill. It's also his only excellence, and it lives on Saturday. The friends are a trap. A woman wants out of the neighborhood more honestly than he does. The bridge is part of the story, not a postcard.

It's adult. Don't run it as a party movie because people still like the songs. Watch the counter and the woman who is already telling the truth about leaving. If the room only cares about the floor, they're watching a poster. A boy whose excellence expires when the night does is not a way to be. The film knows the size of him.

Journal

Keep Saturday Night Fever 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 Republic and Temperance 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

Don't Say Good Luck

63 instead of 46

Don't Say Good Luck is still a drama film, and it scores 63 instead of 46. What you gain is household: The whole film is a girl who will not leave a mother who is ill, and a house trying to keep its shape.

The eight

7
Industry
The hardware counter is the real job; the disco is the only place he excels.
3
Household
Friends and a woman who wants out matter, but no child or marriage is the center.
4
Piety
She wants out more honestly than he does, and little in him stops to match her.
5
Courage
Leaving the neighborhood is the risk on offer, and she is readier than he is.
4
Republic
The friends are a crowd he belongs to, and belonging is how they trap him.
4
Temperance
Saturday kingship is the want the week is built around, and it does not travel.
7
Truth
The dancing is honest skill, and the local crown is a boast that expires.
3
Stewardship
What remains is a dance floor, a trap of friends, and a woman aiming out.

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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.