Film · Edison · 1905
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The Kleptomaniac
41Leave it.
The well-dressed thief is called ill, and the poor one is called a thief.
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The review
Two women steal in Edwin S. Porter's 1905 reel. The well-dressed one is treated as ill. The poor one is treated as a thief. A house can watch it. I didn't need a speech after. The difference is the whole point, and the court is the lie.
The richer woman escapes. That's the moral the short actually has, and it is an ugly one to sit with, because the picture shows the split and then ends. A reel, not a remedy. If we put it on, we say the clothes changed the charge. We don't smooth it into a lesson about being kind.
Journal
Keep The Kleptomaniac in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 41. Yours can differ.
The glance
Industry and Household and Piety and Courage 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.
Consider this
The Dark Knight Rises
53 instead of 41
The Dark Knight Rises is still a drama film, and it scores 53 instead of 41. What you gain is courage: He climbs without the rope.
The eight
- 2Industry
No honest job; two thefts, sorted by who can dress well.
- 2Household
Two women, and neither is shown as a wife or a mother.
- 4Piety
The short has a moral, yet conscience lets the richer woman go.
- 3Courage
The poor woman bears the name of thief; the rich one leaves.
- 7Republic
The court owes both the same law, and the picture says it lies.
- 3Temperance
Theft is not refused; dress decides whose taking counts as illness.
- 8Truth
The court is the lie, and the difference is the bill.
- 4Stewardship
It leaves the unequal charge standing, and calls that the point.
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