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The Melomaniac

16Leave it.

Heads get thrown onto a staff as notes, and it is a joke, not an injury.

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The review

Say it is not an injury before you start, especially with a small child. He takes off his head, again and again, and throws the copies onto a staff. Georges Méliès, 1903. A child can watch it. The trick is the music made of heads. A joke, not an injury. I said the last part out loud in our kitchen, and that was the useful minute.

Nobody is keeping a house or a promise. The work on screen is a tune made of duplicates. You wait for the next head to land. Funny if the warning landed first. It will not teach an instrument, and it will not hurt him. Hold both of those and skip the rest.

Journal

Keep The Melomaniac in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 16. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth 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 Kissing Booth 3

28 instead of 16

The Kissing Booth 3 is still a comedy film, and it scores 28 instead of 16. What you gain is household: A friendship and a father are in the frame.

The eight

3
Industry
The music is heads on a staff, not a player earning a living.
0
Household
No parent, child, or marriage; copied heads are the whole cast.
1
Piety
He does not stop; the joke wants another head thrown on the staff.
1
Courage
It mimics harm, and the fact is firm: a joke, not an injury.
1
Republic
No town is owed a tune; the staff is a stage for copies.
2
Temperance
Again and again: the reel wants the next head, not a last note.
3
Truth
The heads are copies, and you are told not to take them as hurt.
2
Stewardship
A staff of fake heads is left, not music another child can keep.

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Film · 20th Century · 1975

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show

16Leave it.

Funny if you already live in the costume. Not for kids, and not a little church.

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The review

People dressed for it. A newly engaged couple breaks down and enters a castle where a scientist from another planet is building a man. The songs became a midnight ritual. The joke is innocence walking into appetite and staying. If you are already inside that joke, it is funny. It is adult, and it is not for children.

They arrived engaged. The night does not hand that back. Staying is the punchline. I would not play this where a kid can hear the songs and decide the castle is the more interesting life. A ritual you dress up for is still a ritual, and this one is organized around wanting, not around getting anybody home.