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Film · Prime Video · 1984

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The Natural

56Watch it awake.

Keep it, knowing it loves a myth. The gift is not for the gamblers or for his vanity.

The review

Roy Hobbs is almost destroyed by a fascination and a wound, and the film is more radiant than it is strict about that. Iris in the stands, a son he did not know, a team that is not a vehicle for his legend: these correct him. The last at-bat is pure storybook, and a house is allowed a storybook if it has told the truth about the years he lost. The gamblers are the clear no.

A boy with a gift should see the middle, not only the lights. The lights are what people will offer him. The middle is the character.

Journal

Keep The Natural in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 56. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety is the thin one.

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.

Consider this

Rudy

69 instead of 56

Rudy is still a drama film, and it scores 69 instead of 56. What you gain is industry: Practice, grades, the unspectacular grind.

The eight

7
Industry
A craft abandoned and recovered.
6
Household
A son, a woman who waited in the ordinary way.
4
Piety
A mythic glow.
6
Courage
He plays hurt, for the team.
5
Republic
A public easily bought.
5
Temperance
Vanity is the risk.
6
Truth
The fix is refused.
6
Stewardship
It hands a gifted person a warning and a glow. Keep the warning.

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Film · 20th Century · 2022

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Avatar: The Way of Water

56Watch it awake.

The warning is the same as the first film. The water is not a warehouse either.

The review

The first film said a forest is not inventory. This one moves the same sentence underwater, and the sentence is still true. Jake's trouble is that the war he joined has children now, and a father who made himself a weapon does not get to retire from it when the next boat comes.

The spectacle is the product. Stay for the father who would rather the children learn the reef than learn his war, and notice the film cannot help spending them on the war anyway. Take the warning. Do not take the three hours of fire as the point.

Journal

Keep Avatar: The Way of Water in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 56. 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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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

68 instead of 56

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is still a adventure film, and it scores 68 instead of 56. What you gain is republic: An empire, a rebellion, a council that is afraid to act.