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Film · Biograph · 1913

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The Mothering Heart

39Leave it.

The marriage fails the work it was for, and I won't stay on the baby.

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The review

I wasn't ready for how small this is. Griffith, Lillian Gish, 1913, and only a reel. A young wife. The husband strays. Their baby dies, and that sentence is all the room gets from me. The marriage fails the work it was for.

A house can watch it. I won't sit in the loss or narrate it. One fact about the baby, then leave it. What I kept was a household that didn't hold. He strays. The work of the marriage is what breaks. That's the piece I'd tell someone tomorrow, and not the rest.

Journal

Keep The Mothering Heart in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 39. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance 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.

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The Devil Wears Prada

51 instead of 39

The Devil Wears Prada is still a drama film, and it scores 51 instead of 39. What you gain is industry: The office is work: deadlines, competence, a boss who can tell when you have not tried.

The eight

3
Industry
No paid job is named; the work that fails is the marriage itself.
8
Household
A young wife, a straying husband, and a marriage that fails its work.
3
Piety
He strays, and the reel never shows a conscience stopping him.
2
Courage
Nobody risks a thing they would miss; the marriage simply fails.
2
Republic
No neighbor, law, or town is in it; the failure stays in the house.
4
Temperance
He strays, and the reel records the failure instead of a next thrill.
7
Truth
The marriage promise does not hold, and the reel lets that stand.
2
Stewardship
What remains is a marriage that did not do the work it was for.

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Film · Warner Bros. · 1972

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Deliverance

39Leave it.

They wanted a wild weekend, and the film never gives that weekend back.

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The review

Four suburban men wanted a last wild weekend on a river a dam is about to bury. They got a trip they were not built for. The river was the point, and then it was not. One of them is changed in a way the film does not heal. That refusal to tidy the ending is the honest part.

Adult. Do not describe the assault, and do not make a contest out of who can sit through it. The dam was already going to spend the river for people who do not live on it. One of them carries that change home. If someone in the room goes quiet, stay with that, not the canoe.

Journal

Keep Deliverance in the record.