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Film · United Artists · 1963

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The Great Escape

60Watch it awake.

The tunnel is the work. The film does not promise that the work will buy their freedom.

The review

A camp built for men who escape too often becomes a factory for one more escape. The factory is the interest: who forges, who digs, who scouts, who loses his nerve in the tunnel. The pleasure of competence is real, and the film is very good at it. I am not going to describe the end as a success with a sad note. The end is what the competence could not buy.

Young men love this picture, and they should not love only the motorcycle. The motorcycle is one man's run. The inheritance is the tunnel and the field after it. Put it on for anyone old enough to hold both. Say, before the coolest scene, that the coolest scene is not the point. A large audience in 1963. The audience came for the breakout. Stay for what the breakout cost the men who did the digging.

Journal

Keep The Great Escape in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 60. 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.

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Shenandoah

71 instead of 60

Shenandoah is still a war film, and it scores 71 instead of 60. What you gain is household: A widower and his children are the whole principle.

The eight

9
Industry
Digging, forging, and scouting are dull, and the dullness is the heroism.
2
Household
The camp is a company of men. It is not a home, and the film does not pretend it is.
3
Piety
Duty to the next man is the reverence on offer, and it is not nothing.
9
Courage
They go anyway, knowing the odds outside the wire, because sitting is the thing they refuse.
6
Republic
The debt is to the war and to each other: an officer's job is still to try to leave.
6
Temperance
It enjoys the cool of the plan and then pays for the cool with the field.
7
Truth
The title promise is an escape. The bodies in the field are the film refusing to cheat.
6
Stewardship
A house can inherit the work and the cost together, which is the honest pair.

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An Arthur Thanksgiving

60Watch it awake.

A small holiday special with a real table. Fine for children.

The review

Arthur's neighborhood has always been better at ordinary friction than at myths. Thanksgiving here is cooking, guests, a snag, and a meal that still happens. That is more useful than a pageant. Gratitude that has not met a late aunt and a crowded kitchen is only a slogan.

It will not change a life. It may remind a room that the feast is the people who came, including the difficult ones. Put it on while you peel the potatoes.

Journal

Keep An Arthur Thanksgiving in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 60. Yours can differ.

The glance

Courage is the thin one.

Does anyone risk something they would miss, or is it only noise?

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

Consider this

The Iron Giant

73 instead of 60

The Iron Giant is still a animation film, and it scores 73 instead of 60. What you gain is courage: He stays up so the town can live.