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Film · Biograph · 1904

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The Suburbanite

49Watch it awake.

They moved for the good life, and the reel says they missed it.

The review

A city man hauls his household to the suburbs. The house, the commute, and the neighbors are a disaster. Biograph, 1904, and it was popular. A house can watch it. The move was supposed to be the good life. I have wanted that move on a loud week, so the joke landed closer than a costume comedy usually does.

It is still a comedy, not a wake. The household is what gets dragged, and the neighbors are part of the mess. We can laugh and then admit the quieter life was a sales pitch. The reel already said it is not.

Journal

Keep The Suburbanite in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 49. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Courage and Stewardship are the thin ones.

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

Secondhand Lions

61 instead of 49

Secondhand Lions is still a comedy film, and it scores 61 instead of 49. What you gain is courage: They keep him.

The eight

5
Industry
The commute is part of the disaster, so the job still owns the day.
7
Household
He moves his household, and the new house fails the promise.
2
Piety
Nobody's conscience is on trial; a bad move is the joke.
3
Courage
He bets the household on a move the reel calls a disaster.
5
Republic
The neighbors are a disaster, not a street that receives him.
6
Temperance
The want for a suburban good life is what the comedy punctures.
7
Truth
The move was sold as the good life, and the reel says it is not.
4
Stewardship
After the move they have a house, a commute, and a mess of neighbors.

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Film · Warner Bros. · 2014

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American Sniper

49Watch it awake.

The skill is not the same thing as the war. Adults. The wife is the witness. Watch awake.

The review

A shepherd of men, in his own mind, looks through a scope and has to decide what a child in the street is holding. Those seconds are the serious part. The film is often more comfortable on the roof than in the kitchen, and the people on the other end of the shot are rarely given a kitchen at all.

Adults. Do not put it on as a recruitment poster or as a debunking. If you watch it, stay for the grocery store, where a man who was decisive cannot be. Ask what a country owes the person it trained to do this, and what it owes the rooms it never filmed.

Journal

Keep American Sniper in the record.