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Film · United Artists · 1940

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The Great Dictator

69Worth an evening.

The barber is the person, and the dictator was a joke that was never only a joke.

The review

The barber is the human being, and I held onto that. Chaplin plays him and a dictator who looks like Hitler. There is a dance with a globe. The speech at the end is the comedian, not the character. I will not quote it. He made it while America was not yet in the war. The dictator is the joke that was not only a joke. A house can watch it.

I laughed, and the laugh did not stay easy. Making it before the country had joined was a risk a famous man could still have skipped. Older children can see it if you tell them the moustache is not the point. A barber is set beside a man who treats the world as a toy. Stay for the speech. You don't have to like every word. You do have to notice that the comic stepped out of the part.

Journal

Keep The Great Dictator in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 69. 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

Master and Commander

81 instead of 69

Master and Commander is still a war film, and it scores 81 instead of 69. What you gain is household: The crew is the household.

The eight

7
Industry
A barber's ordinary work is set beside a dictator's power.
3
Household
The human figure is a barber, not a marriage, a parent, or a child.
8
Piety
The last speech is the comedian stopping the joke to speak as himself.
8
Courage
He mocked a Hitler-like dictator before America had entered the war.
8
Republic
A Jewish barber is the neighbor a dictator is willing to treat as a joke.
6
Temperance
The globe dance shows a man who wants the world, and he is ridiculous.
8
Truth
The final speech drops the character, because the joke was not only a joke.
7
Stewardship
He left a picture, made before the country entered, that will not stay only funny.

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Finding Nemo

69Worth an evening.

Keep it. Love that will not let go must learn to let the child swim.

The review

Marlin's grief is not a joke, and his overprotection is not a mystery. The film understands both. Dory's forgetfulness is played for laughs and then revealed as a form of faithfulness: she keeps the errand when she cannot keep the facts. Nemo is not cargo. The last act works because the boy has to do the dangerous thing himself while the father trusts him.

A family that has been scared can watch this and talk about the difference between care and a grip. The ocean is big. The promise is not that it is safe. The promise is that you go.

Journal

Keep Finding Nemo in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 69. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety is the thin one.

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

Spirited Away

78 instead of 69

Spirited Away is still a animation film, and it scores 78 instead of 69. What you gain is industry: She earns the rescue by labor.