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The Godfather

41Leave it.

A true tragedy. It shows the bill, and it also makes the life look magnificent. Both matter.

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The review

Michael Corleone loses his soul in installments, and the film is honest enough to show you the empty chair at the end. That honesty is why it is not scored with the shows that think a killer is a brand. It is a tragedy, and tragedy can tell the truth.

It also films power so beautifully that generations of men have volunteered for the tragedy on purpose. The standard counts that. A story that tells the truth and still recruits for the ruin is a dangerous story. Watch it once as an adult, see the door close on Kay, and decline the recruitment. Family is not loyalty to a crime. Family is a table your children can sit at without becoming accomplices.

Journal

Keep The Godfather in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 41. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

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Anatomy of a Murder

58 instead of 41

Anatomy of a Murder is still a crime film, and it scores 58 instead of 41. What you gain is republic: A jury is the public.

The eight

6
Industry
The family is grimly competent. The business is crime.
5
Household
Blood is everything, which is why the household becomes a fortress and a tomb.
3
Piety
Ritual everywhere. Repentance almost nowhere. The baptism is a montage of murder.
6
Courage
Michael sacrifices his soul with his eyes open. That is courage pointed backward.
2
Republic
The state is a nuisance. Private power is the real government.
4
Temperance
Appetite is controlled in the men who win, which makes them scarier, not better.
4
Truth
Omertà is a counterfeit of keeping one's word.
3
Stewardship
What he hands his son is a closed door and a lie.

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Buddy

41Leave it.

Forced cheer is a cage. The child who says no is the one the show cannot bear.

Take controlThis scores 41. Buddy cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

Inside a 1990s children's program, an orange unicorn leads the songs. A boy will not join the dance. He vanishes, and the host tells the others he has gone to a perfect city. Another child finds what he left, and it is not a postcard. The public story stops at the crack: the cheer was the lock, and the no was the thing the lock could not allow.

Do not put this in front of a child who still loves a show like it. The measure is for the adult who presses play. A smile that punishes the child who will not wear it is not friendship. It is a host.

Journal

Keep Buddy in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 41. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Republic and Temperance 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.

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Goosebumps

54 instead of 41

Goosebumps is still a horror film, and it scores 54 instead of 41. What you gain is temperance: Meddling is how it starts.