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Film · 20th Century · 1940

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The Grapes of Wrath

76Worth an evening.

They lose the farm, the mother holds what's left, and it is not a comfort.

The review

Not a comfort, and I knew that before they were on the road. The Joads are pushed off a dust-bowl farm and drive west. The pickers are cheated. A government camp is the one place the law is on their side. Henry Fonda. The mother holds what is left. A house can watch it. I would not tell the kids it turns out all right.

The film ends more hopefully than the novel. I won't quote the speech. Hope does not put the farm back. The work was the land, then the picking, and the picking was a cheat. What she holds is a family that has already been moved. Watch it when you are tired and you will still feel the cheat. The softer finish is something the picture added.

Journal

Keep The Grapes of Wrath in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 76. Yours can differ.

The glance

Temperance is the thin one.

Is appetite shown and then put down, or are you being trained to want the next one?

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

Consider this

It's a Wonderful Life

85 instead of 76

It's a Wonderful Life is still a drama film, and it scores 85 instead of 76. What you gain is temperance: Despair is faced.

The eight

9
Industry
The farm is taken, and the picking they find out west is a cheat.
9
Household
The mother holds what is left of a family pushed off its farm.
6
Piety
Only at the government camp is the law allowed to take their side.
8
Courage
They leave the farm they lived on and drive west with the cheat ahead.
9
Republic
Pickers are cheated, and one camp is where the law stands with them.
5
Temperance
Someone's hunger for cheap picking is the cheat, and the family pays.
8
Truth
The pickers are cheated, and that cheat is the bill for going west.
7
Stewardship
The land is gone, the mother holds the family, and the end is softer than the book.

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Film · Prime Video · 1981

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Chariots of Fire

76Worth an evening.

Keep it. A Sabbath kept is not a small thing beside a gold medal.

The review

Abrahams runs against a snobbery that is real, and his pride is also real. Liddell runs as a form of praise, and when the heat is set on Sunday he will not budge. The film does not treat that as a neurosis. It treats it as a man who knows who he is when the committee is waiting. Competition is given its joy. It is not given the last word.

A house that thinks faith is a private hobby can watch this and be corrected without a lecture. The lecture is the calendar. Some hours are not for sale.

Journal

Keep Chariots of Fire in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 76. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household is the thin one.

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

A Man for All Seasons

89 instead of 76

A Man for All Seasons is still a drama film, and it scores 89 instead of 76. What you gain is household: He loves his house and still will not buy it with a lie.