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Film · United Artists · 1925

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Stella Dallas

55Watch it awake.

The bond is real, and the picture still sells a mother who vanishes so the cry can land.

The review

I knew the cry was the product before anyone left the room. Belle Bennett is the mother from the wrong side of the tracks. She raises a daughter who can marry into a cleaner house, then gives her up so the girl can have that life. United Artists, 1925, a big tear-jerker hit. A house can watch it. This is not the later Barbara Stanwyck film.

She is not invited to stay in the life she bought. I felt the bond and I still won't call the exit a kindness. A parent does not get better by vanishing so the nicer rooms can stay untouched. The sacrifice is what they sold. If you watch it, say she is not invited to stay. A love that remained in the room would have been a different picture.

Journal

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No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 55. Yours can differ.

The glance

Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Does anyone owe a neighbor, a law, or a town — or is every person out for themselves?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Casablanca

68 instead of 55

Casablanca is still a drama film, and it scores 68 instead of 55. What you gain is republic: A occupied city, and a man who stops pretending it is only a nightclub.

The eight

6
Industry
Her work is raising a daughter who can marry into a cleaner house.
8
Household
A mother and a daughter are the life of the picture, not a side plot.
6
Piety
She gives the girl up rather than keep her from the cleaner life.
7
Courage
She gives up the daughter she would miss so the girl can have that house.
3
Republic
The cleaner house takes the daughter and does not owe the mother a place.
3
Temperance
The sacrifice is the product, and a tear-jerker wants the next cry.
7
Truth
She buys the girl a life and is not invited to stay inside it.
4
Stewardship
The girl gets the cleaner house; the mother is left outside what she bought.

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Film · 20th Century · 2009

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55Watch it awake.

The land is not a warehouse. The sermon is right. The body he borrows, and the war that follows, are the part to hold lightly.

The review

A corporation will burn a place for a rock, and the film is not shy about naming that. That is the line to keep. Jake Sully's answer is to become the people he was sent to betray, and then to lead their war, which is a thinner answer than the warning.

Watch it for the warning. Do not take the blue body as a permission to throw your own life away for a feeling of belonging.

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