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Film · France · 1904

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The Impossible Voyage

26Leave it.

A child can sit for the sun crash, and the painted sets are the whole pleasure.

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The review

Méliès followed his moon picture with a train that leaves the earth and hits the sun. A child can watch it. The crash is the picture people remember, and I can see why: the sets are doing the work, not a plot I would try to retell at the table.

Nobody on that party is holding a job I recognize, and no household comes home at the end. It was a popular féerie. The pleasure is the paint and the trick of the hit. When the sun has been struck, the reel has spent what it had.

Journal

Keep The Impossible Voyage in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 26. Yours can differ.

The glance

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

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

Descendants

38 instead of 26

Descendants is still a fantasy film, and it scores 38 instead of 26. What you gain is household: Parents as famous silhouettes.

The eight

3
Industry
Travelers ride a painted train; Méliès's sets do the real work.
1
Household
A party of travelers, not a marriage, a parent, or a child.
2
Piety
No conscience is asked to stop the trip or the crash.
4
Courage
They leave the earth on a train that hits the sun.
1
Republic
No town, no law, no neighbor is owed anything here.
3
Temperance
The crash is the image you are meant to want.
4
Truth
A féerie, not a claim that a train reached the sun.
3
Stewardship
What remains is a popular sun-crash and the painted sets.

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Film · MGM · 1958

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Gigi

26Leave it.

A best picture. The training is the rot, and the marriage at the end does not redeem the school.

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The review

It won the best picture of its year, and the award does not change the curriculum. A grandmother and an aunt are training a young woman in Paris to be the mistress of a rich man: how to choose jewels, how to behave at the table, how to be expensive. The young man who has been wandering through other such arrangements decides he wants this one, and the happy ending is that he marries her instead. The film expects the marriage to retire the question.

It does not. The school was the story, and the school is a preparation of a girl for a man's use. The songs are lovely and the loveliness is the danger, because loveliness is how the curriculum gets past a room. I would not put it on for a young woman as a charming antique. If adults watch it as history, say what the aunt was actually teaching before the last waltz. The last waltz is not a pardon.