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Film · Columbia · 1986

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The Karate Kid Part II

68Worth an evening.

The boy is there for a fight that belongs to the old man, not to him.

The review

A storm, a dying father, an old rival: that is the weather of this one, not a trophy case. The teacher goes home to Okinawa. The boy is brought along to learn that the fight belongs to the old man. The first film gave him hands. This one is about not using them on somebody else's grief.

The romance is extra, and I would leave it extra when you talk afterward. Ask why the student does not get to win this quarrel for himself. Watch it after the original, not instead of it. The chores were the school. Knowing when to stand still is the next lesson.

Journal

Keep The Karate Kid Part II in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 68. 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

Little Women

75 instead of 68

Little Women is still a drama film, and it scores 75 instead of 68. What you gain is industry: Writing, teaching, keeping a poor house.

The eight

4
Industry
The maintenance job is gone. This story is a return home, not a shift of work.
8
Household
A dying father brings the teacher home. The boy is a guest in that house.
8
Piety
The boy has to learn the fight is not his. That keeps him out of the old debt.
7
Courage
The teacher faces a dying father and a rival who never dropped the quarrel.
6
Republic
An old obligation between two men rules the place, and a storm hits all of them.
7
Temperance
He is not supposed to grab the fight. The romance is extra and mostly stays there.
7
Truth
The teacher will not pretend the quarrel belongs to the student. That is the trip.
7
Stewardship
What should remain is the old fight handled by the teacher who came home for his father.

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Film · Prime Video · 1942

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Casablanca

68Worth an evening.

Keep it. A private wound is not a reason to sit out the fight.

The review

Rick's neutrality is a costume for a hurt. Ilsa did not leave for a whim, and the film is adult enough to say so without making either of them a villain of the heart. The letters of transit are a public good disguised as a plot device. When he gives them up, he is not choosing loneliness as a style. He is putting a marriage and a resistance ahead of a feeling that was real and is no longer his to spend.

Watch it with anyone old enough to understand a goodbye. Then refuse the poster version, where the love is the point. The love is the test. The point is that he gets on the right side of a war.

Journal

Keep Casablanca in the record.