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Film · United Artists · 1925

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The Eagle

56Watch it awake.

He masks up to right a family's loss, and the payback softens into a courtship.

The review

Lighter than the sheik pictures, so this is the Valentino I'd try with the house. A Cossack officer is disgraced, becomes a masked thief to right a family's loss, and falls for the daughter of the man he is after. We can watch it together. I would not put those earlier ones on the same evening.

The mask is the romance. He had a post, lost it, and hid in order to answer what a family lost. Then the revenge softens into a courtship. I like that better than a grudge with no end, and it is still a man she cannot see plainly. Tell the kids the softening is the story. A mask is not a kind of honesty.

Journal

Keep The Eagle in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 56. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry is the thin one.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Casablanca

68 instead of 56

Casablanca is still a romance film, and it scores 68 instead of 56. What you gain is republic: A occupied city, and a man who stops pretending it is only a nightclub.

The eight

5
Industry
A disgraced Cossack officer takes up a masked thief's work.
6
Household
He means to right a family's loss, then falls for that man's daughter.
5
Piety
Righting a family's loss is the aim, and the revenge is let to soften.
6
Courage
Disgraced, he wears a thief's mask to answer what a family lost.
5
Republic
An officer, once disgraced, acts outside that service for a private loss.
7
Temperance
The revenge does not stay hungry; it softens into a courtship.
5
Truth
The mask hides who he is, and the courtship sits on that disguise.
6
Stewardship
The loss he sets out to right belongs to a family, not a prize he keeps.

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Film · 20th Century · 2022

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Avatar: The Way of Water

56Watch it awake.

The warning is the same as the first film. The water is not a warehouse either.

The review

The first film said a forest is not inventory. This one moves the same sentence underwater, and the sentence is still true. Jake's trouble is that the war he joined has children now, and a father who made himself a weapon does not get to retire from it when the next boat comes.

The spectacle is the product. Stay for the father who would rather the children learn the reef than learn his war, and notice the film cannot help spending them on the war anyway. Take the warning. Do not take the three hours of fire as the point.

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Keep Avatar: The Way of Water in the record.