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Film · First National · 1918

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Shoulder Arms

49Watch it awake.

The doughboy gags land, and he never treats the dead as the joke.

The review

It's shorter than the features we usually sit through, and that's not the issue. The tramp is a doughboy. A trench, a disguise, a captured enemy. Charlie Chaplin, 1918, and it was a hit. A house can watch it. The war is a joke told from inside the uniform. It isn't a battle picture. It also doesn't pretend the war was a joke to the dead. I laughed, and I kept that second fact in the room.

You can leave this on and still owe the kids one plain line. Funny from inside a uniform isn't the same as funny about the men who didn't come back. Say that before the bits get their laugh. The picture already refuses to spend the dead. A room that forgets that line is doing worse than the gag.

Journal

Keep Shoulder Arms in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 49. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Courage 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

The Great Escape

60 instead of 49

The Great Escape is still a war film, and it scores 60 instead of 49. What you gain is courage: They go anyway, knowing the odds outside the wire, because sitting is the thing they refuse.

The eight

5
Industry
The uniform is the job, and the gags are the work inside it.
2
Household
No marriage, parent, or child is held; it's a soldier sketch.
6
Piety
The comedy refuses to pretend the war was a joke to the dead.
4
Courage
Trench and capture play as risks he can walk out of laughing.
5
Republic
He wears the uniform, and the joke stays inside that service.
5
Temperance
It wants the next laugh and still will not spend the dead.
7
Truth
A war joke that admits the dead didn't find the war funny.
5
Stewardship
A house keeps a short hit that already knew the joke's limit.

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Film · Warner Bros. · 2014

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American Sniper

49Watch it awake.

The skill is not the same thing as the war. Adults. The wife is the witness. Watch awake.

The review

A shepherd of men, in his own mind, looks through a scope and has to decide what a child in the street is holding. Those seconds are the serious part. The film is often more comfortable on the roof than in the kitchen, and the people on the other end of the shot are rarely given a kitchen at all.

Adults. Do not put it on as a recruitment poster or as a debunking. If you watch it, stay for the grocery store, where a man who was decisive cannot be. Ask what a country owes the person it trained to do this, and what it owes the rooms it never filmed.

Journal

Keep American Sniper in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 49. 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

The Patriot

59 instead of 49

The Patriot is still a war film, and it scores 59 instead of 49. What you gain is household: He fights because they took his children, not because of a speech.