Film · Columbia · 1937
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The Awful Truth
59Watch it awake.
They get the divorce, then neither of them can stand the next match.
The review
They suspect each other, so they divorce, and then they wreck the next engagements. Cary Grant, Irene Dunne. The marriage was the true thing and the pride was the obstacle. I have seen this without the jokes, and it was only sad. The work of the joke is the marriage they will not admit they want.
A house can watch it. Wait until the kids can hear about a divorce without treating it as a plan. The suspicion is cheap. The sabotage is how they confess without saying the sentence. If we get that proud, I want the blunt part kept and the charm treated as the trap.
Journal
Keep The Awful Truth in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 59. Yours can differ.
The glance
Industry and Republic 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
The Lego Movie
69 instead of 59
The Lego Movie is still a comedy film, and it scores 69 instead of 59. What you gain is industry: Instructions, construction, a job.
The eight
- 2Industry
No trade appears; the labor on screen is the marriage itself.
- 9Household
The marriage is the life, and pride is the obstacle in it.
- 5Piety
Suspicion does not stop, and they still cannot let each other go.
- 6Courage
Each risks a new match rather than admit wanting the old one.
- 3Republic
Divorce is the legal exit; what they owe is the spouse.
- 7Temperance
They ruin the next matches because the want was the marriage.
- 8Truth
The marriage was the truth, and pride bills them in wrecked matches.
- 7Stewardship
Under the sabotage, the thing being saved is the marriage.
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