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Film · 20th Century Fox · 1958

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South Pacific

56Watch it awake.

The largest American gross of 1958. One song says the hatred is taught, and it is the song to keep.

The review

The largest American gross of 1958. A nurse and a French planter, a lieutenant and a young island woman, and a war that keeps interrupting the songs. The interruption matters. So does the song in which the camp is told that people are taught, carefully, whom to hate. I will not treat that number as a pleasant moral glued to a romance. It is the reason the romance is stuck.

The film is of its year in ways a house should say out loud: the island is a set, and the young woman is a part written from the outside. The teaching still stands. Adults and older children can watch it and argue about whether the happy repairs are earned. If you only keep one piece, keep the song that refuses to call prejudice a taste. Then ask who did the teaching in the rooms you actually live in.

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No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 56. 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.

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Casablanca

68 instead of 56

Casablanca is still a war film, and it scores 68 instead of 56. What you gain is courage: He walks into the risk he had refused.

The eight

6
Industry
A base has work: nurses, sailors, a mission that is not a picnic with songs attached.
5
Household
The loves are the plot. One of them has to get past a prejudice he did not invent and did not fight.
4
Piety
The sacred shows up as the question of who counts as a neighbor, which is not nothing.
6
Courage
The mission into the island is a real risk, and the lieutenant takes it.
6
Republic
A war base is a public. The debt is to the person the camp has decided not to see.
5
Temperance
The music is lush, and the lushness is sometimes doing the work a harder scene should do.
7
Truth
You've Got to Be Carefully Taught says the hatred is learned. The film means the line.
6
Stewardship
A house can inherit that one song and the demand that follows from it.

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Avatar: The Way of Water

56Watch it awake.

The warning is the same as the first film. The water is not a warehouse either.

The review

The first film said a forest is not inventory. This one moves the same sentence underwater, and the sentence is still true. Jake's trouble is that the war he joined has children now, and a father who made himself a weapon does not get to retire from it when the next boat comes.

The spectacle is the product. Stay for the father who would rather the children learn the reef than learn his war, and notice the film cannot help spending them on the war anyway. Take the warning. Do not take the three hours of fire as the point.

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