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Film · MGM · 1926

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The Scarlet Letter

54Watch it awake.

She keeps the child and the letter while the father will not claim him.

The review

The letter is public. The father isn't. A woman in a Puritan town bears a child and won't name him. She wears the letter. The minister is silent. Lillian Gish, with Sjöström, 1926, a prestige picture and not the year's leader. A house can watch it. The shame is public. The father won't claim the child. The town is the machine. I was angry at the quiet, not at the letter.

A child here is a life, and the silence is a bill that child didn't run up. Shame without the father's name is the town doing its work and the man refusing his. If you watch with the house, say the letter isn't the whole confession. She wore the letter. He still wouldn't claim the child. The town keeps the machine either way.

Journal

Keep The Scarlet Letter in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 54. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Piety and Republic and Temperance 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

Casablanca

68 instead of 54

Casablanca is still a drama film, and it scores 68 instead of 54. What you gain is industry: A cafe is a real business in a city of exiles.

The eight

2
Industry
No job is the point; public shame is the work the town does.
8
Household
She bears the child and keeps him; the father will not claim him.
4
Piety
The town shames her in public while the minister stays silent.
8
Courage
She wears the letter openly and will not give up the father's name.
4
Republic
The town is a shame machine, not a place that owes the child.
4
Temperance
His want stays hidden; the letter is what the town punishes.
8
Truth
The father will not claim the child, and that silence is the lie.
5
Stewardship
A marked mother and a silent father are what the child is left.

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Aang

54Watch it awake.

The original measure stands: a child is not only a weapon. This poster has not earned a new score.

The review

Aang, in the story people love, runs from a duty and then picks it up without becoming cruel. Friends are not a squad. The enemy is an empire, and the answer is not a prettier empire. A new picture with his name on it can keep that or spend it. The tile shows the name and a Paramount mark.

Do not give the new film the old affection for free. Watch twenty minutes. If the boy is a brand and the bending is the product, you already have the series, which did the harder thing. If he is still the one who will not win by murder, stay.

Journal

Keep Aang in the record.