Film · Film · 2013
Pass it on
The Immigrant
55Watch it awake.
A severe film about a woman trying to keep her sister and her own conduct in a city that prices both.
The review
This is not a warm immigrant story, and it should not be. The shelf includes it because the alternative is a lie about what a woman alone at Ellis Island could be made to do. The film is adult and grim and, at its best, about a conscience that survives circumstances a sermon never pictured.
Adults only. Do not use it to shock a teenager into gratitude. Use it, if you use it, to tell the truth that arrival was not automatically dignity.
Journal
Keep The Immigrant in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 55. Yours can differ.
The glance
Republic and Temperance are the thin ones.
Does anyone owe a neighbor, a law, or a town — or is every person out for themselves?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
The Truman Show
66 instead of 55
The Truman Show is still a drama film, and it scores 66 instead of 55. What you gain is republic: A town of actors is a tyranny with good weather.
The eight
- 6Industry
The work available to her is the work the city offers the unprotected.
- 6Household
A sister is the reason she submits to things she would not choose.
- 5Piety
Confession and shame are real to her. The men around her use that.
- 7Courage
She keeps going back into humiliation for someone else.
- 3Republic
The city is a market, not a community, until a few people act otherwise.
- 4Temperance
The degradation is the setting. The film does not leer, and it does not look away.
- 7Truth
It does not pretend the first years were a poster of brave arrivals.
- 6Stewardship
Getting the sister out is the whole inheritance she is trying to buy.
Where to watch
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