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Film · 20th Century Fox · 1961

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The Hustler

46Watch it awake.

Watch it awake. Winning is the hunger, and the man who feeds it is not a coach.

The review

He can play pool better than anyone he meets, and he needs the fact to be seen. An older gambler offers to stake him and takes a piece of him for the service. A woman who limps and drinks and tells the truth attaches herself to him and is not improved by the attachment. The film is famous for the games. The games are the temptation to miss the sentence. The sentence is that a gift handed to a user becomes a product, and the person with the gift helps.

Adults. The rooms are full of smoke and use, and a young player will want the posture more than the warning. If you watch it, watch the woman as closely as the table. She is the one who says what the stake is. Ask, at the end, whether he won anything he can take home. The film's answer is quieter than the last shot's reputation. A reputation for cool is exactly the danger the picture is about.

Journal

Keep The Hustler in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 46. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship 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.

Consider this

The Blind Side

54 instead of 46

The Blind Side is still a drama film, and it scores 54 instead of 46. What you gain is household: They make a bed for a boy who did not have one.

The eight

7
Industry
Hours at the table are the craft, and the craft is shown as practice, not as magic.
3
Household
He cannot be a household to the woman who is trying to be one to him.
3
Piety
Almost no reverence except her clarity about what he is selling.
6
Courage
He stays in a game that can break him. The nerve is real and pointed at a trophy.
3
Republic
The pool hall is a public of gamblers. He owes it a spectacle, and he pays.
3
Temperance
The drink and the win are the appetites, and they are not ordered by the end.
8
Truth
A man who buys a piece of a winner is a user. The film does not glamorize the purchase.
4
Stewardship
Adults can inherit the warning about a gift. A gift in this picture eats the person holding it.

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Film · United Artists · 1964

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A Hard Day's Night

46Watch it awake.

Watch it awake, or put it on for the songs and the work. Nobody is asked to become worse.

The review

They have a television appearance to make, a train to catch, and an afternoon in which the city wants pieces of them. The jokes are at the expense of managers, advertisers, and anyone who needs the boys to stand still and be a product. The songs are the work, performed as work. Nobody is asked to betray a friend. Nobody is asked to be cruel to a girl. For a phenomenon as large as this one, that is a remarkable restraint, and I will credit it.

A family can put it on. The limit is that it is a day, not a life, and a day of fame is a thin diet if it becomes the only picture of adulthood in the house. Watch the studio session and ask who in the room was doing a job seriously. Include them. The screaming outside is the decade. The work inside is the part worth keeping. A very large cultural fact of 1964. The fact is not a reason. The songs and the decency are.

Journal

Keep A Hard Day's Night in the record.