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Film · Australia · 1906

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The Story of the Kelly Gang

21Leave it.

Only fragments survive, and they still take the outlaw for the hero.

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The review

Most of it is lost. Charles Tait's Australian picture ran near an hour, and what remains is a piece: Ned Kelly, the armor, the police. An outlaw is the hero. The law is the enemy in the story's eyes. A teen can watch what survives. I will not pretend the fragments are the whole picture.

People call it the first narrative feature. The claim is argued, and scraps cannot close that fight from the couch. I wouldn't make a family night of an outlaw hero when most of the show is gone. Say what is missing before anyone treats the armor as a complete tale.

Journal

Keep The Story of the Kelly Gang in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 21. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth 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

Now You See Me: Now You Don't

33 instead of 21

Now You See Me: Now You Don't is still a crime film, and it scores 33 instead of 21. What you gain is industry: Craft of the illusion.

The eight

2
Industry
Outlaw work is the living, and the picture treats him as the hero.
2
Household
No marriage or child in the surviving piece; Kelly and the police are.
1
Piety
An outlaw is the hero, and the story does not ask him to stop.
4
Courage
The armor and the police are the risk, on the outlaw's side.
1
Republic
The law is the enemy in the story's eyes, not a duty owed.
3
Temperance
The legend wants the outlaw, and most of the film is lost.
2
Truth
Most of it is lost; the fragments are not the hour it ran.
2
Stewardship
What survives is a piece of a film and an argued first-feature claim.

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Film · Prime Video · 2000

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American Psycho

21Leave it.

The satire is real. The invitation to enjoy him is the problem. Adults. Do not quote him.

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The review

Bateman is what a certain greed looks like when it no longer bothers to impersonate a person. The film is often called a comedy, and the comedy is the colleagues, the cards, the restaurants, the inability to tell one empty man from another. That joke lands. The violence is not the joke. It is the film forgetting it had a point and reaching for a gasp.

You do not need his morning routine in your mouth. The useful line is dull: a life measured by reservations is already over, even if no one is bleeding. Leave the rest in the drawer.

Journal

Keep American Psycho in the record.