Film · Universal · 1947
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The Egg and I
64Watch it awake.
The romance starts the farm, and the chickens are the part that lasts.
The review
One long-running tally calls this the biggest film of 1947. Other ledgers disagree. I don't need the winner. A city couple tries to run a chicken farm, and the work is harder than the romance that started it. I have had weeks like that without a single hen. The joke works because the chores do not care why you fell in love.
Their neighbors are Ma and Pa Kettle, popular enough to take the sequels. The marriage is the household under a failing crop. Mild enough for a house. I wouldn't praise it as a return to the land. Affection does not collect the eggs. If you put it on, watch whether they are still a pair when the work stops being cute.
Journal
Keep The Egg and I in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 64. 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.
Consider this
Paddington 2
76 instead of 64
Paddington 2 is still a comedy film, and it scores 76 instead of 64. What you gain is republic: A street, a prison, a judge: institutions that can still be kind.
The eight
- 9Industry
The chicken farm is the real job, and it is harder than the romance.
- 9Household
The marriage is the household, set under a crop that is failing.
- 4Piety
No great conscience is tested; the chores just keep arriving.
- 6Courage
They leave city life for a farm that may not pay them back.
- 5Republic
Ma and Pa Kettle are the neighbors, and the sequels followed them.
- 6Temperance
The romance has to yield to feed, eggs, and a day that is not cute.
- 6Truth
The dream that started the move meets the bill of a failing crop.
- 6Stewardship
They are trying to keep a farm, and the crop is not helping.
Where to watch
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