Film · United Artists · 1960
Pass it on
The Apartment
63Watch it awake.
A best picture. He is promoted for the key. The evening is worth it for the night he stops.
The review
He wants a promotion, so he lends his apartment to executives who need a place that is not their home. The key is the whole moral, and the film does not rush it. A woman who runs the elevator is one of the people taken to the apartment, and she is not a type. When he understands what the key is doing to her, the promotion stops being a prize he can hold. It won the best picture of 1960. The award matches the turn, for once.
Adults, not children. The affairs are the premise and they are treated as sordid rather than as freedom, which is the difference between this and the comedies that want the same plot without the bill. Watch it for the night he chooses. Ask what it cost him in the only currency the office understands. A house can use that cost. It cannot use the first hour as a tip for getting ahead.
Journal
Keep The Apartment in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 63. Yours can differ.
The glance
Republic is the thin one.
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
12 Angry Men
75 instead of 63
12 Angry Men is still a drama film, and it scores 75 instead of 63. What you gain is republic: A jury is the whole subject, and it is treated with fear and love.
The eight
- 6Industry
The insurance office is a real workplace, with a boss, a clock, and a promotion that is a bribe.
- 5Household
He has no family on screen. The woman next to the elevator is the household he might choose.
- 6Piety
Conscience arrives late and specific: he will not be the man with the key anymore.
- 8Courage
He gives back the job and the advantage. That is the courage, and it is not glamorous.
- 4Republic
A corporation is the public, shown as a place that rewards the useful lie.
- 5Temperance
The affairs are the executives' appetite. The film does not ask you to envy them by the end.
- 9Truth
A promotion bought with a key is a corruption, and the film uses that word in the plot.
- 7Stewardship
What you keep is a man who would rather be lonely than useful to someone else's betrayal.
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