Film · MGM · 1934
Pass it on
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
56Watch it awake.
The father calls it love, and what he means is that none of them may leave.
The review
The lock registered before the poems did. Laughton plays a father over a house of adult children, and he will not let them go. Shearer writes, loves March's poet, and leaves. A well-liked hit. A house can watch it. The household is a cage. I watched as a parent and did not like recognizing the grip. He confuses love with ownership. I did not need a second night to hear it.
Her poem is a life, not a hobby. I kept that and let the courtship be the door, not the prize. She leaves. Everyone else is still inside a house that calls the lock affection. If a grown child where you live is near an exit, this is a hard night and a fair one. I would not hand the father the last word. The poems were already a life he did not get to own.
Journal
Keep The Barretts of Wimpole Street in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 56. Yours can differ.
The glance
Piety and Republic and Temperance are the thin ones.
Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Casablanca
68 instead of 56
Casablanca is still a drama film, and it scores 68 instead of 56. What you gain is republic: A occupied city, and a man who stops pretending it is only a nightclub.
The eight
- 7Industry
She writes poems, and that work is treated as a life, not a hobby.
- 8Household
A father and adult children: the house is a cage he will not open.
- 4Piety
His conscience never stops him; he names ownership as if it were love.
- 8Courage
The daughter who writes falls in love and leaves the locked house.
- 2Republic
The rule belongs to one father, not to a town or a public law.
- 3Temperance
He will not let them go; the want to keep them is never put down.
- 8Truth
He says love, and the house he runs is ownership of adult children.
- 5Stewardship
She leaves with the poems; the rest of the children stay in his house.
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