The Best Years of Our Lives

76Worth an evening.

Three men come home, and the town will not pretend the war left the house alone.

The review

Three men come back to the same town, and the homecoming is the whole story. An infantryman, a bombardier, and a banker. The banker's children have grown. The bombardier's wife is a stranger, and his hands were burned. The infantryman learns the soda fountain will not have him back as he was. Best picture, and among the two or three largest of the year. The prize is the least interesting fact in that list.

A house can watch it. I was glad nobody turned the return into a parade. Marriages and children went on without them, and the jobs are the trouble, not a backdrop. If somebody in your family came home from a war, don't fill the quiet. The town already has.

Journal

Keep The Best Years of Our Lives in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 76. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety is the thin one.

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.

The eight

9
Industry
The soda fountain will not take the infantryman back as the man who left.
9
Household
The banker's children have grown, and the bombardier's wife is now a stranger.
4
Piety
The homecoming has no lecture in it; the town simply will not fit the old life.
8
Courage
Staying risks the marriage, the job, and the burned hands the war left him.
8
Republic
Three men and one town owe each other a life the war cut in half.
7
Temperance
It stays with the return instead of offering you another battle to enjoy.
8
Truth
The wife is a stranger, and the fountain will not pretend he is unchanged.
8
Stewardship
After the war, what remains is the town, the children, and the men who got home.

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Film · Prime Video · 1981

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Chariots of Fire

76Worth an evening.

Keep it. A Sabbath kept is not a small thing beside a gold medal.

The review

Abrahams runs against a snobbery that is real, and his pride is also real. Liddell runs as a form of praise, and when the heat is set on Sunday he will not budge. The film does not treat that as a neurosis. It treats it as a man who knows who he is when the committee is waiting. Competition is given its joy. It is not given the last word.

A house that thinks faith is a private hobby can watch this and be corrected without a lecture. The lecture is the calendar. Some hours are not for sale.

Journal

Keep Chariots of Fire in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 76. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household is the thin one.

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

A Man for All Seasons

89 instead of 76

A Man for All Seasons is still a drama film, and it scores 89 instead of 76. What you gain is household: He loves his house and still will not buy it with a lie.