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Film · Warner Bros. · 2012

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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

70Worth an evening.

Leaving the armchair is the start. Sparing Gollum is the measure.

The review

Bilbo likes his rooms, his meals, and a life that asks nothing of him before tea. Gandalf's rudeness is to insist that a comfortable house is not the same as a finished life. The road is too long and too fond of its own battles. The scene that earns the length is the dark one: he has the sword at a wretched throat, and he does not use it.

Watch it for the door and the cave. Say out loud that pity is not softness. The gold at the end of the map is not the prize yet. The prize, so far, is a hobbit who can leave a chair and refuse a kill.

Journal

Keep The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey in the record.

The Gamgee house filed 64. A door, a company, and too much battle for the age in the room. We stopped after the mountain.

Live Historic number 70. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry is the thin one.

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.

Consider this

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

81 instead of 70

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is still a adventure film, and it scores 81 instead of 70. What you gain is piety: There is a good older than the Ring.

The eight

6
Industry
The dwarves want their forges back. Bilbo's only skill, at the door, is being comfortable.
7
Household
Bag End is a real house. He risks it for a people who lost theirs.
6
Piety
The mercy in the cave is the first fact in the picture that is not a fight.
8
Courage
He steps out the door before he has a reason he can explain. The sword comes later.
7
Republic
A homeless company is asking for its own mountain, not for someone else's.
7
Temperance
The easy chair is the vice he has to set down. The trolls are appetite with a fire.
7
Truth
He comes out of the cave with a secret in his pocket and does not lay it on the table.
8
Stewardship
He spares a creature he could kill. The mountain, and the cost of it, are still ahead.

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Film · Fox Searchlight · 2013

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12 Years a Slave

70Worth an evening.

Keep it for adults who can bear it. A free man, a paper, a wife and children, and a country that called the theft law.

The review

Solomon Northup was a citizen of New York with a wife, children, and a trade, and the United States allowed him to be sold. The film's discipline is to stay with the time. It does not offer a white savior as the meaning, though a man finally carries a letter. The meaning is the letter, the name, and the fact that the law had to be contradicted by a person willing to act. Patsey's suffering is not there for our refinement. It is there because leaving her out would be another theft.

Adults. Do not put it on as a background of importance. If you watch it, watch it through, and do not follow it with a cheerful picture the same night. The charge is not a feeling. The charge is to know that a legal theft is still a theft, and to be the person who carries the letter.

Journal

Keep 12 Years a Slave in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 70. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Temperance 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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Cabrini

83 instead of 70

Cabrini is still a drama film, and it scores 83 instead of 70. What you gain is piety: The vow is the engine, and it is not a costume.