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Film · United Artists · 1959

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Some Like It Hot

34Leave it.

The craft of the farce is real. The last line shrugs at the lie, and the shrug is the lesson.

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The review

Two musicians witness a gang murder and escape by joining a women's band. The mechanical comedy is as good as American film got in these years: a door, a timer, a lie that has to be kept one minute longer. I will not pretend I did not enjoy the machine. The machine's last move is a rich man who has been lied to about who he wants to marry, and a shrug that says the lie will do.

The shrug is the part a house should not applaud just because the timing is perfect. Timing is perfect. A person is still a person, and a vow still needs a true name. Adults can watch the farce and decline the last line. Do not put it on as the comedy that proves nothing matters if the laugh is big enough. The massacre at the start already told you something matters. The ending pretends to forget.

Journal

Keep Some Like It Hot in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 34. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Republic and Temperance and Truth 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

The Godfather Part II

46 instead of 34

The Godfather Part II is still a crime film, and it scores 46 instead of 34. What you gain is truth: It tells the truth the first film risked glamorizing: the son becomes the ruin.

The eight

5
Industry
They are working musicians. The disguise is a flight, not a trade they honor.
3
Household
Every attraction in the film is a falsehood someone is standing inside.
2
Piety
Nothing is revered. The joke needs every vow to be a costume.
5
Courage
They stay in the room with killers nearby. The nerve is real and self-preserving.
2
Republic
A public is only a place to hide. Nobody owes anybody the truth.
3
Temperance
Appetite is the engine: money, sex, and the next improvised identity.
4
Truth
The disguise works as a joke. The film ends by deciding the truth does not matter much.
3
Stewardship
A house inherits a brilliant shrug. A shrug is a poor thing to hand on about identity and vows.

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Film · Netflix · 2026

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Animals

34Leave it.

He wins the city on a rescue that was not his.

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The review

Mark Kimball has already spent what the house had, in secret, on a race he is losing. His wife is already gone in all but the papers. A call says their son is taken. The son is at home. The boy who was taken is Hector, the son of the man who waits on their housekeeper. A fixer is hired. At the end the public is told that Mark is the man who saved the boy, and the votes follow.

The measure is that last thank-you. A child was the price of a story, and the story is what the city believed. Do not admire the nerve.

Journal

Keep Animals in the record.