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Film · Britain · 1901

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Stop Thief!

26Leave it.

The whole picture is a chase, and the stolen meat is only the bait.

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The review

A man runs with a stolen joint of meat. A crowd follows, including a dog. Williamson, 1901. A child can watch it. The chase is the whole picture. The meat is the bait. I kept waiting for a second idea, and the reel does not have one.

The theft is plain, which I can say without dressing it up. The pleasure is still the run. Nothing I was given says the joint comes back, so I won't say it does. A child will see the dog and the crowd and call it a game. I'd say first that the meat was someone's food. Then the chase can be a chase, and we can stop.

Journal

Keep Stop Thief! in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 26. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

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

Consider this

Everyone Is Lying to You for Money

38 instead of 26

Everyone Is Lying to You for Money is still a comedy film, and it scores 38 instead of 26. What you gain is industry: The subject is the work of selling.

The eight

2
Industry
The man steals a joint of meat; that is not a job that matters.
1
Household
No parent, marriage, or child; the crowd and a dog do the chasing.
2
Piety
The crowd runs, but the chase is the pleasure, not a conscience.
2
Courage
A crowd follows a thief, and no one is shown risking a life.
4
Republic
Stop thief: a stolen joint, a crowd, a public chase after meat.
3
Temperance
The meat is the bait, and the chase is the want they repeat.
5
Truth
The theft is plain: he runs with a joint that is not his.
2
Stewardship
The meat is taken, and nothing I have says it is given back.

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Film · MGM · 1958

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Gigi

26Leave it.

A best picture. The training is the rot, and the marriage at the end does not redeem the school.

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The review

It won the best picture of its year, and the award does not change the curriculum. A grandmother and an aunt are training a young woman in Paris to be the mistress of a rich man: how to choose jewels, how to behave at the table, how to be expensive. The young man who has been wandering through other such arrangements decides he wants this one, and the happy ending is that he marries her instead. The film expects the marriage to retire the question.

It does not. The school was the story, and the school is a preparation of a girl for a man's use. The songs are lovely and the loveliness is the danger, because loveliness is how the curriculum gets past a room. I would not put it on for a young woman as a charming antique. If adults watch it as history, say what the aunt was actually teaching before the last waltz. The last waltz is not a pardon.

Journal

Keep Gigi in the record.