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Film · Columbia · 1976

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Taxi Driver

26Leave it.

Do not leave this with a young man who already thinks he is the broom.

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The review

Men have used this film as a mirror. That recruitment is part of the bill. A Vietnam veteran drives a cab at night in New York and cannot connect to anything. He fixates on a campaign worker, then on a child in prostitution, arms himself, and calls it cleaning. Adult. I will not describe the shootings. The insomnia convinces. The mission is a lie with a clean name.

Do not leave it with a young man who already thinks he is the broom. A child in that life is not his project. Loneliness is real, and the film tells that part straight. It also hands a certain viewer a costume. If you watch, watch with someone who will not let the mirror talk last.

Journal

Keep Taxi Driver in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 26. Yours can differ.

The glance

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

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

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

Consider this

The Godfather

41 instead of 26

The Godfather is still a drama film, and it scores 41 instead of 26. What you gain is household: Blood is everything, which is why the household becomes a fortress and a tomb.

The eight

5
Industry
Night driving is a real job, and it walls him off from every other life.
2
Household
He cannot connect. The child and the campaign worker are fixations.
2
Piety
He renames a violent plan as cleaning. That is a conscience flipped.
3
Courage
He risks himself, then spends the risk on a private idea of sweeping.
2
Republic
A campaign is nearby. He answers the city with a personal crusade.
2
Temperance
The sleeplessness is catching, and some men took that mood home.
4
Truth
It tells the truth about his isolation and then lets the lie recruit.
1
Stewardship
What it left in some men was a mirror they were willing to use.

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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.

Take controlThis scores 26. Gigi cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

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.

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 Truth 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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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

36 instead of 26

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is still a musical film, and it scores 36 instead of 26. What you gain is truth: It tells the truth that the avenger cannot see: the woman he mourns is in the room.