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Film · MGM · 1954

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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

36Leave it.

The barn-raising is a joy, and the women were still carried off.

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The review

The barn-raising is what people kept, and I can see why. It is work and showing off at once, and the dancing is good. Seven brothers in the Oregon territory decide they need wives. One marries a woman who expected one husband, not a crew. I was with her until the household turned out to be six extra men and a lot of chores she had not been offered as the life.

The others carry women off from the town. The musical plays the grab as dancing. I will not soften that into a sweet meeting. The abduction is the premise. The women then make a household, which asks you to enjoy what a taking produced. Songs do not fix how they were brought there. If children are watching, do not end on the barn. End on the fact that those women did not choose.

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Live Historic number 36. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

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West Side Story

51 instead of 36

West Side Story is still a musical film, and it scores 51 instead of 36. What you gain is truth: The last bodies are not a metaphor the editor rescues.

The eight

7
Industry
The barn-raising is the shared labor people actually remembered.
6
Household
She expected one husband, not a crew; the women later make a household.
2
Piety
Nothing in the brothers stops the grab; the songs keep going.
3
Courage
Carrying women off is force, not a danger bravely faced.
3
Republic
They owe the town its daughters and take them anyway.
2
Temperance
The want for wives is danced, and you are meant to enjoy the grab.
3
Truth
She agreed to one husband and was handed a crew she had not chosen.
3
Stewardship
The farm gets a household, and the town loses the women taken.

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Film · Fox Searchlight · 2010

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Black Swan

36Leave it.

The discipline is real. Perfection is the idol, and the film kneels with her. Adults.

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The review

Practice is not the villain. She has given herself to a hard craft, and the film respects the craft enough to show the feet. The villain is the idea that a person may be spent completely if the result is perfect. Her mother wanted a dancer in the house more than a daughter. The director wants the performance. She agrees.

Adults only. Do not watch it as a stylish breakdown to quote. If a young dancer in the house hears that perfection is this, say the plainer thing: the body is not raw material, and a role ends.

Journal

Keep Black Swan in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 36. 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?

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The Manchurian Candidate

46 instead of 36

The Manchurian Candidate is still a drama film, and it scores 46 instead of 36. What you gain is republic: An election is the public stake.