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Film · Edison · 1896

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The Kiss

26Leave it.

A few seconds of a stage kiss, no story around it, and the dare was the mouth.

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The review

A few seconds. That is the first thing to say, or the title will promise a romance you do not get. May Irwin and John Rice repeat a kiss from a play. Edison, 1896. A teen can watch it. There is no story around it. I sat through the whole of it in the time it takes to decide whether you want tea.

The dare was the kiss. The audience of the 1890s paid to see the mouth. That is the fact, and it is a small one. Nobody keeps a house, nobody risks more than the showing, nobody is changed when it ends. I would let a teen see it once, with that sentence attached, and I would not call the evening a love story.

Journal

Keep The Kiss 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 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.

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Regretting You

39 instead of 26

Regretting You is still a romance film, and it scores 39 instead of 26. What you gain is household: A mother and daughter who have to remain a house after the lie.

The eight

3
Industry
Irwin and Rice repeat a kiss from a play, and that is the whole job.
2
Household
A stage kiss is not a marriage, a parent, or a life at home.
1
Piety
Nobody is asked to refuse the kiss; the dare is that it happens.
3
Courage
The risk was putting a kiss on screen, and it lasts a few seconds.
3
Republic
Paying customers in the 1890s came to see the mouth in public.
2
Temperance
The want is the kiss, and those few seconds exist to feed it.
5
Truth
There is no story around it; it is only the kiss from the play.
2
Stewardship
When it ends, nothing remains but the fact that they kissed.

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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.

Journal

Keep Gigi in the record.