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Film · Warner Bros. · 1946

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The Big Sleep

36Leave it.

Bogart and Bacall are the fun, and I still could not tell you who did what.

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The review

Don't pretend you followed it. A dying general hires a detective to handle a daughter's trouble. There is another daughter. Bookstores, blackmail, more bodies than the story can line up. The studio lost the plot, and so did I, and the picture is not sorry. Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall. Adults only. Not for kids.

The pleasure is the two of them, not the case. I liked the talk and I noticed what it was training: enjoy the murk, don't ask what anyone owes a town. Nobody is building a life you could hand a child. Watch it late if you want the banter. If you want a case that closes, this isn't that night, and saying otherwise is how people fib about it.

Journal

Keep The Big Sleep in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 36. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Republic 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

The Silence of the Lambs

49 instead of 36

The Silence of the Lambs is still a crime film, and it scores 49 instead of 36. What you gain is courage: She goes down the hall.

The eight

6
Industry
He is hired for a case, and even the studio could not keep the job straight.
3
Household
A dying father and two daughters are the trouble, not a house we live in.
3
Piety
Blackmail stacks up, and no conscience in the room stops the next body.
6
Courage
He stays on a job that can kill him for a family that will not come clean.
2
Republic
A rich private client, not a town, and the law barely gets a vote.
3
Temperance
The flirtation is the fun, and the next corpse is how it holds you.
4
Truth
Everybody lies, and the film never makes the bill come out even.
2
Stewardship
You leave with their chemistry and a case you cannot honestly retell.

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Film · Fox Searchlight · 2010

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Black Swan

36Leave it.

The discipline is real. Perfection is the idol, and the film kneels with her. Adults.

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The review

Practice is not the villain. She has given herself to a hard craft, and the film respects the craft enough to show the feet. The villain is the idea that a person may be spent completely if the result is perfect. Her mother wanted a dancer in the house more than a daughter. The director wants the performance. She agrees.

Adults only. Do not watch it as a stylish breakdown to quote. If a young dancer in the house hears that perfection is this, say the plainer thing: the body is not raw material, and a role ends.

Journal

Keep Black Swan in the record.