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Film · 20th Century · 1986

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The Fly

64Watch it awake.

Skip the spectacle and keep the plea that she not save what he is becoming.

The review

He tests the transporters on himself and misses the fly. The body changes. I'm not describing that. The woman who loves him watches, and he asks her not to keep what he is becoming. That's the mercy, and it's the sentence I'd keep. His work is the experiment. The experiment runs past caution. Conscience shows up late, and it shows up as a plea, not as a lecture.

Adults only. Don't use it to see who flinches. If you talk after, talk about the request: he wants the person who loves him to refuse a false rescue. That's harder than the curiosity that started the test, and it's the only good news in the story. You can skip it this week and lose nothing you needed. If you don't skip it, don't retell the body.

Journal

Keep The Fly in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 64. Yours can differ.

The glance

Republic is the thin one.

Does anyone owe a neighbor, a law, or a town — or is every person out for themselves?

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

Consider this

Spider-Man 2

73 instead of 64

Spider-Man 2 is still a science-fiction film, and it scores 73 instead of 64. What you gain is republic: The train full of strangers carries him.

The eight

8
Industry
The experiment is his work, and running it on himself is the choice that counts.
7
Household
She loves him and stays to watch, so the last request is an act inside a couple.
8
Piety
Conscience arrives as his plea that she not keep what he is becoming.
6
Courage
Testing it on himself is reckless; asking her to let go is the costly part.
2
Republic
A private lab, with no town, no law, and no neighbor in the bargain.
5
Temperance
He cannot restrain the test in time; the restraint left is the one he asks of her.
8
Truth
He tells her what he is becoming and does not ask her to pretend otherwise.
7
Stewardship
The mercy is that she is asked not to inherit what the experiment made of him.

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Film · Universal · 2019

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1917

64Watch it awake.

A message carried through a broken country. The courage is not the camera. The courage is the errand.

The review

Schofield is not chosen because he is special. He is chosen because he can run and because he has a brother in the line, which is a questionable reason for a general to use and an understandable one for a soldier to accept. The film's gamble is to stay with the body that has to cross the ground. When it becomes a stunt, it thins. When it stays an errand, it is about duty under a command that is not always worthy of the men.

Older teenagers and adults. Do not let the technique be the conversation. The conversation is a piece of paper that can save lives if a tired man will keep walking. Most of moral life is closer to that than to a speech.

Journal

Keep 1917 in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 64. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety 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

Hacksaw Ridge

74 instead of 64

Hacksaw Ridge is still a war film, and it scores 74 instead of 64. What you gain is piety: Faith that costs a rank and a rifle.