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Film · United Artists · 1962

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The Miracle Worker

70Worth an evening.

Worth an evening. The miracle is hours of work, and the child is not a symbol.

The review

A family hires a young teacher for a daughter who cannot see or hear and who has been allowed to become a tyrant because no one could reach her. The teacher does not pet the situation. She moves in and starts a fight that looks, for a long time, like cruelty to anyone watching from the doorway. It is not cruelty. It is the refusal to leave a child unreached because reaching her is ugly to watch. The film stays in the room for the ugly part.

I would watch it with anyone old enough to understand that a word is a key and not a trick. Ask how many times the teacher has to repeat the same thing before the pump. The answer is the title's correction: the miracle is the repetition. Do not use this picture as a vague tribute to teachers. Use it as a picture of one teacher who would not trade a particular girl for a peaceful house. There is a difference, and the difference is the evening.

Journal

Keep The Miracle Worker in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 70. 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

Tenzing

78 instead of 70

Tenzing is still a biography film, and it scores 78 instead of 70. What you gain is piety: He climbs Chomolungma as a presence owed reverence; the others mean to conquer a peak.

The eight

9
Industry
The teaching is physical, repetitive, and unpaid in any currency but the next try.
7
Household
A family has been defeated by love without a method. The teacher brings the method.
5
Piety
The reverence is for a particular child, not for an idea of inspiration.
9
Courage
She stays in a fight the family has already decided is hopeless.
4
Republic
The public consequence comes later. This film is the kitchen and the pump.
6
Temperance
It refuses to be inspirational on a schedule. The meals and the slaps are the pace.
8
Truth
Language is a fact they are after, not a feeling. The first word has to mean a thing.
8
Stewardship
A house inherits work toward a person, which is the opposite of being moved and done.

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12 Years a Slave

70Worth an evening.

Keep it for adults who can bear it. A free man, a paper, a wife and children, and a country that called the theft law.

The review

Solomon Northup was a citizen of New York with a wife, children, and a trade, and the United States allowed him to be sold. The film's discipline is to stay with the time. It does not offer a white savior as the meaning, though a man finally carries a letter. The meaning is the letter, the name, and the fact that the law had to be contradicted by a person willing to act. Patsey's suffering is not there for our refinement. It is there because leaving her out would be another theft.

Adults. Do not put it on as a background of importance. If you watch it, watch it through, and do not follow it with a cheerful picture the same night. The charge is not a feeling. The charge is to know that a legal theft is still a theft, and to be the person who carries the letter.

Journal

Keep 12 Years a Slave in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 70. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Temperance 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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Cabrini

83 instead of 70

Cabrini is still a drama film, and it scores 83 instead of 70. What you gain is piety: The vow is the engine, and it is not a costume.