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Film · Touchstone · 1986

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The Color of Money

43Leave it.

It stays fun right up until you notice the lesson he gives the kid.

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The review

The hustler is older. He stakes a young pool player he thinks he can manage, and then finds he still wants to play himself, not only to sell the kid. A romance runs alongside, and it is a partnership, not a pause for a kiss. He teaches the kid how to lose on purpose. The film asks whether that lesson is a craft or a rot. I had a good time and then disliked what I was having a good time with.

Do not put it on as a harmless sports night. The skill is real. The inheritance is rotten if the younger man leaves knowing how to throw a game. Watch it with someone who teaches, and pause when the lesson starts. Wanting to play again is the honest part. Showing a kid how to lose so the room can be worked is the part you do not take home.

Journal

Keep The Color of Money in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 43. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship 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.

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The Blind Side

54 instead of 43

The Blind Side is still a drama film, and it scores 54 instead of 43. What you gain is household: They make a bed for a boy who did not have one.

The eight

6
Industry
Pool is a real skill he can still work, and he stakes the kid as a business.
5
Household
The romance is a partnership, not a marriage or a child with a life of its own.
4
Piety
The film asks if the lesson is rot, and no conscience plainly stops the lesson.
5
Courage
He risks playing again himself instead of only selling the younger man.
3
Republic
No town or law is owed; the only code is how the table can be worked.
3
Temperance
He still wants to play, and he teaches the kid a want that hides inside a loss.
5
Truth
Managing the kid was the lie he told himself; playing again tells on him.
3
Stewardship
What the kid is given is a lesson in how to lose on purpose.

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Casino Royale

43Leave it.

The poker is craft. The lesson they want is a hardening. Adults, and do not applaud the hardening.

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The review

This is the Bond film that remembers a job is a series of choices with bodies attached. The card game is wonderful craft: reading a face, managing a sum, staying when you are losing. That part could teach a teenager something about nerve.

Then the education is completed by a woman's death, so the brand can have its armor back. Do not call that grown-up. Call it the old machine restarting. Watch the table if you watch it. Refuse the moral they wrote on her grave.

Journal

Keep Casino Royale in the record.