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Film · Britain · 1916

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The Battle of the Somme

38Leave it.

Some of the Somme footage is real and some was staged, so don't call it a plain record.

Take controlThis scores 38. The Battle of the Somme cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

Britain packed houses for footage of the Somme offensive. Some of it is real and some of it was staged, and I would say that sentence before the lights go down. A teen can watch. I won't describe wounds. It is not a fiction and it is not a plain record. Hollywood did not make it.

I was too tired to play historian and still too awake to let the tidy shots pass as proof. Nobody taps the frame to tell you which is which. The home crowd saw an offensive. If you treat every image as a document, you repeat the muddle. If you shrug and call it a war movie, you throw out the real part. Both mistakes fit this title and almost nothing else.

Journal

Keep The Battle of the Somme in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 38. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety 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

God With Us

50 instead of 38

God With Us is still a documentary film, and it scores 50 instead of 38. What you gain is piety: The title aims at worship.

The eight

5
Industry
Soldiers and cameramen work an offensive, and some shots were staged.
2
Household
No marriage or child is on screen; the crowds watching are at home.
2
Piety
Conscience is not the story; an offensive is shown to the home crowd.
6
Courage
The real footage risks men at the Somme; the staged part only looks so.
6
Republic
Britain's home crowds were shown their own offensive, real and staged.
3
Temperance
Enormous crowds came to look, and the picture does not sort the frames.
3
Truth
Some of it is real and some was staged; it is not a plain record.
3
Stewardship
What the home crowd is left is a record that will not stay plain.

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Film · Marvel · 2015

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Avengers: Age of Ultron

38Leave it.

The interesting part is the weapon they chose to trust. The battle is the invoice.

Take controlThis scores 38. If you do not want Avengers: Age of Ultron in the house, the steps are on Disney+. Block it

The review

The only grown sentence is the first one: tired men try to outsource the watching of the world, and the thing they built does not love the world. That is an old warning, and it is the right warning for a decade that kept handing judgment to a system.

Then Sokovia lifts and the warning becomes a set. Stay if you want the argument about who gets to build a peace. Do not stay for the peace itself. The film does not have one. It has a sequel.

Journal

Keep Avengers: Age of Ultron in the record.