The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

71Worth an evening.

He picks the house over the climb, and the wartime affair is still sitting in the room.

The review

The suit is the cage, and the commute is how he wears it. He has a public-relations job that asks him to flatter a boss and give up his evenings. At home a wife wants a bigger life. He has a wartime affair and a child abroad that he has to tell. He chooses the house over the climb. Adult, because of the affair.

I have wanted the bigger job and the quiet kitchen in the same week, so I knew which choice I hoped for. He makes it. Telling is the hard part, and the secret does not stay convenient. I would not file the affair as a small wartime footnote. There is a child. There is a wife. The climb can wait. On the house, I agreed with the picture.

Journal

Keep The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 71. Yours can differ.

The glance

Republic is the thin one.

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.

Consider this

It's a Wonderful Life

85 instead of 71

It's a Wonderful Life is still a drama film, and it scores 85 instead of 71. What you gain is republic: A town of neighbors is the whole theory of the republic in one square.

The eight

8
Industry
Public relations wants his flattery and his evenings, and that is the job.
9
Household
A wife, a wartime child abroad, and the house he chooses over the climb.
7
Piety
He tells what he could hide, and he lets conscience refuse the climb.
7
Courage
Telling about the child risks the marriage he is trying to keep.
4
Republic
What he pays is owed to his house, not to a town or a law.
7
Temperance
He turns down the climb and the job's claim on his nights.
8
Truth
The affair and the child are the bill, and he does not keep them hidden.
7
Stewardship
The climb is left behind; the house, wife, and child are what he keeps.

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Film · Walt Disney · 2018

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Black Panther

71Worth an evening.

A nation owes the people it hid from. A king still has to keep the nation.

The review

Killmonger is not a twist. He is what happens when a nation saves itself and leaves a child in the other place. T'Challa's answer is not to hand him the weapons. It is to stop pretending the border was innocent, and still not to burn the country down to pay for it.

Watch the argument, not only the suit. A house can ask the same question at a smaller size: whom did we leave outside, and what will we open without giving the place away.