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Film · United Artists · 1960

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The Magnificent Seven

55Watch it awake.

The village is the point. The gun is the method, and the method is the limit.

The review

A bandit comes every season and takes the harvest, so a few farmers go looking for men who know how to fight and are hungry enough to fight cheap. The seven are different from each other. One of them wants the farmers' life and is not built for it. The battle is the sale, and the sale is honest about what bullets do. What I will keep is the last distinction: the village will still be there because of the farmers, not because a gunman decides to settle and wear the life like a costume.

Boys love this film, and it is cleaner than the decade's spy pictures. Cleaner is not the same as sufficient. Watch it and ask which of the seven would be a loss to the village as a neighbor a year later. The answer is most of them. Courage bought the season. It did not become a way of living. Say that while the theme is still playing, or the theme will be the only thing the room remembers.

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Keep The Magnificent Seven in the record.

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Live Historic number 55. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

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Rio Bravo

66 instead of 55

Rio Bravo is still a western film, and it scores 66 instead of 55. What you gain is republic: The debt is the definition of the job: the town gets a law, or it gets a man with a payroll.

The eight

7
Industry
They take a job and do it: train, fortify, and stay through the fight they were paid for.
4
Household
The village has families. The gunmen mostly have a wage and a restlessness.
3
Piety
A church is in the frame. The film's real reverence is for the farmers who feed people.
8
Courage
They stay when the odds turn, which is more than the pay required.
6
Republic
The debt runs both ways: the village needs defense, and the gunmen are not the future of it.
5
Temperance
The heroics are enjoyable and the film is a little proud of them.
6
Truth
A hired gun is not a farmer. The ending knows which one the village can live on.
5
Stewardship
A house can inherit the defense. It should not inherit the gun as a vocation.

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Film · 20th Century · 2009

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55Watch it awake.

The land is not a warehouse. The sermon is right. The body he borrows, and the war that follows, are the part to hold lightly.

The review

A corporation will burn a place for a rock, and the film is not shy about naming that. That is the line to keep. Jake Sully's answer is to become the people he was sent to betray, and then to lead their war, which is a thinner answer than the warning.

Watch it for the warning. Do not take the blue body as a permission to throw your own life away for a feeling of belonging.

Journal

Keep Avatar in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 55. Yours can differ.

The glance

Republic and Temperance are the thin ones.

Does anyone owe a neighbor, a law, or a town — or is every person out for themselves?

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

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Demon Slayer: Mugen Train

65 instead of 55

Demon Slayer: Mugen Train is still a action film, and it scores 65 instead of 55. What you gain is courage: He stays when the dream offers him his family back.