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Film · France · 1903

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The Kingdom of the Fairies

21Leave it.

A child can watch the halls, but the princess is only a thread for the tricks.

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The review

One of Méliès's longer féeries, and not a film I can price, since there is no American ledger to lean on. A princess is taken. A journey follows through painted halls and trick transformations. A child can watch it. I kept waiting for the story to thicken, and it never did, because the rooms are the point.

The princess is a way to move you from one change to the next. I wouldn't sell that to a child as a tale with people in it. You come out remembering a hall, a trick, a bit of paint. That is a fair night if you wanted a show. It is a thin night if you wanted someone to care about.

Journal

Keep The Kingdom of the Fairies in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 21. 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

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

33 instead of 21

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is still a fantasy film, and it scores 33 instead of 21. What you gain is industry: Seamanship as a means to a theft.

The eight

2
Industry
No job matters; the painted rooms are the whole point.
2
Household
A princess is taken, then used as a thread for tricks.
2
Piety
Nothing in the journey asks a conscience to refuse.
3
Courage
A journey follows the taking, with no named stake attached.
1
Republic
No neighbor or law appears; the halls are a private show.
2
Temperance
Each trick invites the next room, and the story stays thin.
3
Truth
The story is a thread, not a promise the film means to keep.
2
Stewardship
You leave with painted halls, not a princess you know.

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Film · Prime Video · 2000

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American Psycho

21Leave it.

The satire is real. The invitation to enjoy him is the problem. Adults. Do not quote him.

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The review

Bateman is what a certain greed looks like when it no longer bothers to impersonate a person. The film is often called a comedy, and the comedy is the colleagues, the cards, the restaurants, the inability to tell one empty man from another. That joke lands. The violence is not the joke. It is the film forgetting it had a point and reaching for a gasp.

You do not need his morning routine in your mouth. The useful line is dull: a life measured by reservations is already over, even if no one is bleeding. Leave the rest in the drawer.

Journal

Keep American Psycho in the record.