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Film · DreamWorks · 1998

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Saving Private Ryan

75Worth an evening.

The beach is the cost. The errand is a moral argument. Adults. Not a spectacle.

The review

The opening is not there to thrill you. It is there to make the later argument cost something: whether a country may spend eight men to save one, because a mother has no other son left. Reasonable people in the squad disagree. The film does not pretend the disagreement is easy, and it does not pretend the beach was noble to look at.

Adults only. Do not put it on for a patriotic evening or for a boy who likes weapons. If you watch it, stay for the question the old man is asked by the graves, and answer it about your own life without a speech.

Journal

Keep Saving Private Ryan in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 75. Yours can differ.

The glance

Temperance is the thin one.

Is appetite shown and then put down, or are you being trained to want the next one?

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

Consider this

Master and Commander

81 instead of 75

Master and Commander is still a war film, and it scores 81 instead of 75. What you gain is temperance: Appetite is under the articles.

The eight

8
Industry
A squad has ranks, rifles, a captain who teaches. The work is specific and exhausted.
7
Household
The errand is a mother's remaining son. Brothers are already dead.
6
Piety
Prayers are said by men who may not be fine. The sacred is not a speech.
9
Courage
They do the errand after they have seen what the errand will cost.
7
Republic
A country spends lives to keep a promise to one house. The film argues about that.
5
Temperance
The violence is severe so you cannot call it a game. It is still almost unbearable.
9
Truth
It refuses the clean war. Men are afraid, and some decisions are ugly.
9
Stewardship
The charge at the end is to earn it. That is a stewardship, said to a son.

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Film · Prime Video · 1957

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12 Angry Men

75Worth an evening.

Keep it. A room, a reasonable doubt, and the courage to be the first no.

The review

Eleven men want the afternoon back. The twelfth wants the testimony walked through, because a life is not a schedule. The film is a whole civics lesson in one sweatbox: prejudice with a smile, prejudice with a shout, and the slow work of looking at a knife and a train schedule until the story the state told no longer holds. Nobody is romanticized for being angry. The quiet man is not a saint. He is simply unwilling to be rushed into a killing.

A teenager should see this before they see another thriller about a genius detective. Justice here looks like staying in the chair. That is a picture this house can use.

Journal

Keep 12 Angry Men in the record.