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Film · Edison · 1895

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The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots

21Leave it.

The blade falls on a dummy after a splice, and I did not watch a death.

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The review

The camera stops. The actor is replaced. The blade falls on a dummy. I have to put that in the first breath, or I will sound as if I watched a woman die. Alfred Clark, 1895. A doll is substituted. It is not a record of a death. The splice is the invention. The subject is an execution anyway.

Not for a small child, and not for a child who cannot be told about the stop. If the house is small, leave it off. I don't find courage here, since the person is gone before the blade comes down. I find a clever way to show a fall. Clever is not the same as fit for the room. Say dummy, say splice, or don't start.

Journal

Keep The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 21. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

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

Carrie

33 instead of 21

Carrie is still a drama film, and it scores 33 instead of 21. What you gain is truth: The meanness is shown truly.

The eight

3
Industry
The camera stops, a dummy replaces the actor, and that splice is the work.
1
Household
No marriage or child is here; the subject is an execution trick.
2
Piety
The blade falls on a dummy, and nobody in the picture stops it.
1
Courage
The actor is replaced before the blade, so no life is risked on screen.
4
Republic
A queen's execution is the subject, and the picture is not a record.
2
Temperance
The splice exists so the fall can be shown, which is why the reel was made.
3
Truth
A doll takes the actor's place; you did not watch a real death.
1
Stewardship
Leave it if the house is small; a dummy's fall is a poor keepsake.

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Film · Prime Video · 2000

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American Psycho

21Leave it.

The satire is real. The invitation to enjoy him is the problem. Adults. Do not quote him.

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The review

Bateman is what a certain greed looks like when it no longer bothers to impersonate a person. The film is often called a comedy, and the comedy is the colleagues, the cards, the restaurants, the inability to tell one empty man from another. That joke lands. The violence is not the joke. It is the film forgetting it had a point and reaching for a gasp.

You do not need his morning routine in your mouth. The useful line is dull: a life measured by reservations is already over, even if no one is bleeding. Leave the rest in the drawer.

Journal

Keep American Psycho in the record.