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Film · Columbia · 1971

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The Last Picture Show

48Watch it awake.

The town is being used up, and nobody gets a prettier ending as a favor.

The review

Early fifties, a small Texas town, and nobody is heading anywhere the film will fake a road toward. Black and white. High-school kids, a pool hall, a picture show about to close. Affairs everybody already knows, the coach's wife among them. One boy is not cruel. One boy is. Adult. That is the whole map, and it is enough.

What I trust is that it will not flatter the night. The town is being used up. The kids have nowhere to aim, and charm is not renamed a future. Watch the boy who is not cruel and notice how little the place knows what to do with him. The closing theater does not need a lecture. It is a business ending in a town that has been spending its people for years.

Journal

Keep The Last Picture Show in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 48. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Courage and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

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Local Hero

59 instead of 48

Local Hero is still a drama film, and it scores 59 instead of 48. What you gain is stewardship: It hands you a reluctance to pave.

The eight

5
Industry
The picture show is about to close, and ordinary living in the town is thinning.
6
Household
The coach's wife and the kids are lives, inside affairs the whole town knows.
3
Piety
Conscience is thin; the difference on offer is one boy who is not cruel.
4
Courage
Nobody risks a future they can name, because the town has not offered one.
6
Republic
The whole town is the case: neighbors who know the affairs and let it be used up.
4
Temperance
Known affairs are the weather, and the film does not sell them as freedom.
7
Truth
Everyone already knows, and the theater about to close is the bill coming due.
3
Stewardship
What remains is a town being used up, not a place kept for the kids.

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Film · Illumination · 2013

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Despicable Me 2

48Watch it awake.

The girls are the point. The spy plot is the sale. A family can sit with it and talk.

The review

Gru did not become good in the abstract. He became a father, and the second film is mostly about whether he will protect that fact or miss the glamour of being feared. The spy story is disposable. The kitchen is not.

A child can watch this. Say, after, that the funny yellow helpers are the advertisement, and the adoption is the story. If they only quote the minions, watch something quieter next.

Journal

Keep Despicable Me 2 in the record.