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Film · United Artists · 1928

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The Circus

44Leave it.

He makes them laugh by accident, and he does not get the girl.

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The review

It was a large hit, behind The Singing Fool, and the finish doesn't pay him back. The tramp hides in a circus, becomes the act without meaning to, and loves the bareback rider who loves someone else. The tightrope is the set piece. Silent. A house can watch it. He makes them laugh and does not get the girl. The work is accidental and then taken away.

I laughed, and then the room felt emptied out. A job he didn't choose gets used and removed, and the person he wanted already loves someone else. No household gets built. If you show it, don't sell the circus as a career. Say he was funny on their terms and left without the prize a crowd assumes comes next.

Journal

Keep The Circus in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 44. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Republic 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

Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story

56 instead of 44

Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story is still a comedy film, and it scores 56 instead of 44. What you gain is household: Parents, a marriage, a life kept.

The eight

5
Industry
He becomes the act by accident, and then that work is taken away.
2
Household
He loves the rider, she loves someone else, and no household is started.
3
Piety
Nobody is stopped by conscience; the circus just uses the laugh and moves.
6
Courage
The tightrope is the risk, and he still leaves without the girl he wants.
3
Republic
He owes the crowd the laughs, and the circus owes him nothing back.
6
Temperance
He does not get the girl, and the film does not steal her for the finish.
6
Truth
She loves someone else, and the picture does not pretend that fact changes.
4
Stewardship
They keep the laughs; he loses the act and leaves without the rider.

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Film · Prime Video · 1951

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Alice in Wonderland

44Leave it.

Nonsense is funny until it is a government. She comes back. Good.

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The review

Wonderland is a place where authority is a temper: a queen who executes, a tea party that never ends, a caterpillar who sneers. Alice is polite and then she is done. The film's best moment is her refusal to take the queen's court as a real court. Curiosity brought her in. Judgment takes her out.

A child can enjoy the jokes. Say that the jokes are not a model of how a house or a school should run. A world that changes the rules to watch you stumble is not a wonder. It is a bully with a teapot.

Journal

Keep Alice in Wonderland in the record.