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Film · United Artists · 1944

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Since You Went Away

64Watch it awake.

A long comfort picture about waiting out a war that was not comfortable.

The review

Very long, and the length is the waiting. A wife whose husband is overseas keeps a house, takes a boarder, and watches a daughter fall in love with a soldier. Claudette Colbert. Among the largest grosses of 1944. A house can watch it. We did, and I felt the running time more than the danger, which is the odd bargain.

It's a comfort picture about a war that was not comfortable. That doesn't erase the wife or the daughter. It means the absence gets softened for you. The work on screen is staying, not a battle. If you want the home front as a chore, this is closer than a combat movie. If you want the waiting mostly gentle, that is also what they sold. The daughter's soldier is a life starting inside somebody else's long year.

Journal

Keep Since You Went Away in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 64. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety is the thin one.

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

Saving Private Ryan

75 instead of 64

Saving Private Ryan is still a drama film, and it scores 75 instead of 64. What you gain is courage: They do the errand after they have seen what the errand will cost.

The eight

7
Industry
The work is the waiting: a house kept, and a boarder taken in.
8
Household
A wife, a daughter in love, and a husband who is overseas.
5
Piety
She keeps faith with a husband who is not there to see it.
6
Courage
A daughter loves a soldier while the husband is already overseas.
7
Republic
She keeps a house and takes a boarder while the war has the men.
5
Temperance
Waiting is the discipline; comfort is how the picture sweetens it.
6
Truth
The absence is real, and the comfort is softer than the war was.
7
Stewardship
A house is still being held together at the end of the long wait.

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Film · Universal · 2019

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1917

64Watch it awake.

A message carried through a broken country. The courage is not the camera. The courage is the errand.

The review

Schofield is not chosen because he is special. He is chosen because he can run and because he has a brother in the line, which is a questionable reason for a general to use and an understandable one for a soldier to accept. The film's gamble is to stay with the body that has to cross the ground. When it becomes a stunt, it thins. When it stays an errand, it is about duty under a command that is not always worthy of the men.

Older teenagers and adults. Do not let the technique be the conversation. The conversation is a piece of paper that can save lives if a tired man will keep walking. Most of moral life is closer to that than to a speech.

Journal

Keep 1917 in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 64. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety 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

Hacksaw Ridge

74 instead of 64

Hacksaw Ridge is still a war film, and it scores 74 instead of 64. What you gain is piety: Faith that costs a rank and a rifle.