Film · Universal · 1946
Pass it on
The Killers
39Leave it.
He doesn't run, and that isn't bravery. He had already stopped wanting to live.
Take controlThis scores 39. The Killers cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it
The review
I wanted his stillness to be nerve. It isn't. Two hired men come to kill a former boxer, and he doesn't run. An insurance investigator asks why. The reason is a betrayal and a woman. Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner. A Hemingway story starts it, and then the film continues. Adult. I won't describe the shooting.
He had stopped wanting to live. Say that before anyone calls the waiting brave. The investigator's job is real: find out why a man already accepted the end. Boys who like the tough pictures will miss that sentence if you don't say it. Not for children. The shadows are handsome. Under them is a person who quit, and I won't dress the quit up as a code.
Journal
Keep The Killers in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 39. Yours can differ.
The glance
Household and Piety and Courage 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 Batman
50 instead of 39
The Batman is still a crime film, and it scores 50 instead of 39. What you gain is courage: He goes toward the flood for strangers, which is the first time the courage is not for his own pain.
The eight
- 7Industry
A former boxer, and an insurance man whose work is asking why he waited.
- 2Household
A woman and a betrayal, not a marriage or a child anyone is raising.
- 2Piety
He waits for the hired men, with no wish left in him to be stopped.
- 3Courage
Not running looks brave only until you hear he had stopped wanting life.
- 4Republic
Hired guns and an insurance file: order shows up after he has quit.
- 4Temperance
The old want already spent him; the film offers a wait, not a new thrill.
- 7Truth
A betrayal is the reason, and the bill is a man who will not move.
- 2Stewardship
Left behind is an investigator's question and a life he already put aside.
Where to watch
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