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Film · Paramount · 2008

Stop-Loss

Name: Stop-Loss scores 51 — Live Historic
Item: Stop-Loss
Rating: 51
Author: Live Historic

51Watch it awake.

The order is a real wrong. The film is angrier than it is clear. Adults. Watch it for the paperwork.

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The review

Kimberly Peirce's sergeant, Brandon King, has done a tour in Iraq that ended in an ambush he will not talk about cleanly. He is welcomed home in Texas and then told he is going again, not by volunteering and not by a new law passed in daylight, but by a provision that lets the service extend an enlistment. The film is right that this felt, to many, like a changed deal.

Adults. It is a 2008 argument and it has 2008's heat. I would not take every scene as a fair report. I would take the policy seriously enough to be able to explain it without the film's soundtrack. A house that says 'support the troops' should know the difference between a term of service and a door that only opens one way.

Journal

Keep Stop-Loss in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 51. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Temperance 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

Courage Under Fire

63 instead of 51

Courage Under Fire is still a war film, and it scores 63 instead of 51. What you gain is industry: Investigation is the work: interviews, records, a man trying to reconstruct a night he was not at.

The eight

5
Industry
He did the job. The institution's answer is that the job is not finished because the contract has a clause.
6
Household
A town, a girlfriend, a barn. Home is where the order lands.
2
Piety
Anger is the only devotion left.
6
Courage
Refusing the order takes nerve. So did obeying the earlier ones. The film likes only the first.
7
Republic
Stop-loss is a civic fact: a republic keeping men past the term it sold them.
4
Temperance
The road trip and the rage are indulged.
6
Truth
The policy was real. The personal story is built to indict it, and the indictment is fairer than the scenes.
5
Stewardship
What it leaves is the clause in the contract. Read the clause.

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Film · Universal · 1916

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

51Watch it awake.

A child can watch the submarine; the bolted-on war talk is 1916, not the sea.

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The review

Captain Nemo and a submarine, and the underwater scenes were really shot underwater. That is the part I would show a child. The sea is the pleasure. This 1916 Universal picture was the year's leader on the lists still cited. It is not a later version, so don't talk over it with a newer one.

A wartime frame was added, with Nemo against a warmongering power. The added war is 1916 talking. A child can watch the boat and the water. I'd say, before that frame takes over, that the war talk was put on for the year. The dive is the part worth keeping.

Journal

Keep 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea in the record.