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Film · France · 1895

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The Sprinkler Sprinkled

28Leave it.

A boy, a hose, a fooled gardener: the first little story on film is a prank.

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The review

The boy steps on the hose. The gardener looks into the nozzle. The boy steps off. Louis Lumière, 1895, under a minute, and a child can watch it. I laughed, because that is the only thing the picture is for. The first story the new machine told is a prank.

A man was watering. A boy made the water his joke. I can live with that for less than a minute, and I won't pretend it teaches anything but timing. Still, if my own child tried it in the yard, this film would be a poor witness for him. The gardener was at his work. The laugh is cheap, and then it's over.

Journal

Keep The Sprinkler Sprinkled in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 28. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Scooby-Doo

41 instead of 28

Scooby-Doo is still a comedy film, and it scores 41 instead of 28. What you gain is courage: They go into the scary room for each other.

The eight

5
Industry
A gardener is watering until a boy stops the hose for the joke.
2
Household
The boy is a prank, not a child whose home the picture knows.
2
Piety
He steps off the hose on purpose, and nothing in him holds back.
2
Courage
A hose prank is not a risk the boy would miss after a minute.
3
Republic
The laugh is taken from a working man, and nobody answers for it.
2
Temperance
You wait for the splash, and the picture is built so that you will.
4
Truth
He stops the hose so the gardener will look straight into the nozzle.
2
Stewardship
Under a minute, what remains is a prank on a man at his work.

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Film · DreamWorks · 1999

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American Beauty

28Leave it.

The household is rotting, and the picture is too pleased to watch. Adults. Not a liberation.

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The review

The film is right that a house can become a catalog and a silence. It is wrong about the cure. A man chasing a feeling, and a plastic bag offered as transcendence, is not a repair. A daughter lives in the house while the film calls his restlessness honesty.

Adults. If you saw it in its year and called it brave, look again at who the bravery costs. The table was the place to begin. He begins with himself and calls it beauty.

Journal

Keep American Beauty in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 28. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household 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.

Consider this

The Greatest Showman

40 instead of 28

The Greatest Showman is still a drama film, and it scores 40 instead of 28. What you gain is industry: A show built night after night.