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Film · Warner Bros. · 1951

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Strangers on a Train

44Leave it.

A neat murder swap on a train, and I did not like how long the wish stayed fun.

Take controlThis scores 44. Strangers on a Train cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

After the house was quiet I put this on, and I knew it was not for the kids. Two men meet on a train. One proposes that each kill the person the other wants dead, so the law has no motive to find. The tennis player does not agree. The other man kills anyway and comes to collect. A carnival is in it. Adult. I am not describing the murder.

What sat with me was the wish. He never made the bargain, and the film still treats that private want as the trap. Hitchcock makes the scheme feel neat, which is why I would not leave it running in a tired room. Watch it awake. It is a story about a complaint you should have kept to yourself.

Journal

Keep Strangers on a Train in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 44. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Courage 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.

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Disclosure Day

56 instead of 44

Disclosure Day is still a thriller film, and it scores 56 instead of 44. What you gain is courage: They risk the comfortable silence.

The eight

4
Industry
The tennis player has a public game; the other man shows no job.
3
Household
Someone's marriage is the life one stranger wants wiped out.
5
Piety
He refuses the swap, and the private wish still springs the trap.
4
Courage
He is collected for a killing he never agreed to do.
5
Republic
The whole plan is built so the law finds no motive.
4
Temperance
The guilty wish is the trap, and the suspense still feeds on it.
7
Truth
He never agrees, and silence is still treated as the bargain.
3
Stewardship
Left behind is a death he did not order and a wish that trapped him.

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Film · Prime Video · 1951

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Alice in Wonderland

44Leave it.

Nonsense is funny until it is a government. She comes back. Good.

Take controlThis scores 44. If you do not want Alice in Wonderland in the house, the steps are on Prime Video. Block it

The review

Wonderland is a place where authority is a temper: a queen who executes, a tea party that never ends, a caterpillar who sneers. Alice is polite and then she is done. The film's best moment is her refusal to take the queen's court as a real court. Curiosity brought her in. Judgment takes her out.

A child can enjoy the jokes. Say that the jokes are not a model of how a house or a school should run. A world that changes the rules to watch you stumble is not a wonder. It is a bully with a teapot.