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Film · United Artists · 1925

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The Gold Rush

45Watch it awake.

The shoe and the rolls get the laughs, and he still doesn't come home rich.

The review

The tramp is starving in the Yukon, in love with a dance-hall girl who does not see him. The shoe and the rolls are the public bits people still mention. A house can watch it. Hunger is the joke and the wound. Chaplin had a large hit in 1925, and it still sat behind The Big Parade and Ben-Hur. That ranking is not a reason to treat the hunger as cute.

He is not a prospector who strikes it rich in any lasting way. The laughs can make the camp feel lighter than the hunger is. He wants a girl who is not looking at him, and he wants a meal. The gold in the title is the rumor that brought men north. It is not an ending he gets to keep.

Journal

Keep The Gold Rush in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 45. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Republic 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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Ice Age

58 instead of 45

Ice Age is still a comedy film, and it scores 58 instead of 45. What you gain is household: The plot is a baby being carried back to a parent by creatures who did not have to.

The eight

4
Industry
He is not a prospector who strikes it rich in any lasting way.
4
Household
He loves a dance-hall girl who does not see him, and no home forms.
2
Piety
Starving and a one-sided love never become a question of conscience.
6
Courage
He stays in the Yukon while starving, a risk measured in hunger.
3
Republic
A gold camp offers no town, law, or neighbor he is shown to owe.
7
Temperance
Hunger is the joke and the wound, and the gold is not a lasting prize.
7
Truth
The public bits joke about hunger; the title's promise of gold does not pay.
3
Stewardship
No lasting claim is left; the thing he carries is the hunger.

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Film · Warner Bros. · 2018

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A Star Is Born

45Watch it awake.

Love is not a cure for a man who will not put the drink down. The film knows. It still asks you to ache for him.

The review

Ally has a gift and a job she is afraid to claim. Jackson has a gift he is spending to stay numb. The film sees both, and then it makes his death the door to her voice, which is an old lie about artists: that the ruin is the price of the true note. The true note was already there in the parking lot, before the ruin was asked to be meaningful.

Adults only. If you watch it, refuse the last alchemy. A person who kills himself is not a chord. Say that in the room so the song does not get the last word.

Journal

Keep A Star Is Born in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 45. Yours can differ.

The glance

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

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

Don't Say Good Luck

63 instead of 45

Don't Say Good Luck is still a drama film, and it scores 63 instead of 45. What you gain is temperance: Sentiment is thick.