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The Greatest Showman

40Leave it.

The welcome is a ticket. The people are realer than the man who bills them. Do not confuse the anthem with a kindness.

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The review

Barnum's gift was gathering people the respectable world had decided were exhibits, and then charging admission, which means he did not disagree with the respectable world about what they were for. The songs argue that being looked at is the same as being loved. It is not. A paycheck and a spotlight can be better than a street and still be a use of someone.

The house can enjoy a chorus. Do not let a child leave thinking the man who sold the tickets was the brave one. The brave ones were the people who had to decide whether his stage was a door or another cage, and the film is not patient enough to stay for that decision.

Journal

Keep The Greatest Showman in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

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The glance

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

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

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Bohemian Rhapsody

49 instead of 40

Bohemian Rhapsody is still a biography film, and it scores 49 instead of 40. What you gain is industry: Studios, tours, a song constructed in layers.

The eight

6
Industry
A show built night after night. The labor is spectacle, and it is still labor.
4
Household
A wife and daughters he keeps leaving for the bigger room. The apology is a number.
2
Piety
Wonder without reverence. The crowd is the god.
5
Courage
The performers walk into a room that came to gawk, and stay standing.
3
Republic
A public that pays to look at bodies. He does not change the public. He invoices it.
4
Temperance
Ambition is the appetite, set to a march. It is catchy, which is the risk.
4
Truth
The film knows he is a fabulist and still hands him the moral microphone.
4
Stewardship
What the performers leave with, in life, was more complicated than the finale allows.

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Film · Touchstone · 1998

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Armageddon

40Leave it.

A father and a crew. The world-ending is a fireworks show. The sacrifice is asserted, not earned.

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The review

Rough men who can do a physical thing are sent to do it in space because the polished men cannot. That is a populist feeling the film is not wrong to have. A father who has been absent tries to bless a marriage before he dies. Those are human scraps.

The scraps are tied to a firework. You will be told when to cry. You do not have to. If the house wants a film about a crew and a real cost, Private Ryan is the adult one and Apollo stories exist. This is a cheer. Leave it.

Journal

Keep Armageddon in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 40. 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?

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

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Doctor Strange

50 instead of 40

Doctor Strange is still a action film, and it scores 50 instead of 40. What you gain is temperance: His ego is the subject.