Film · 20th Century · 1974
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The Towering Inferno
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People die because the wiring was cheap, not because the party was unlucky.
The review
The wiring was done cheap. The rest is fire. The world's tallest building burns on opening night, and a fire chief and the architect have to get people down. The party at the top is the vanity. The chief's work is the competence. People die because of a shortcut. The film is glad to be enormous, but the cause is not a mystery.
As a spectacle it is grand and a little shameless. As a story about work it is plain enough for a teenager. The wiring was done cheap, and strangers paid for the savings. Stay with the chief. He is the adult in a tower full of people who came for the view.
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The glance
Household is the thin one.
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.
The eight
- 9Industry
A fire chief's competence is the work that matters, against wiring done cheap.
- 4Household
The people inside are lives to get down, not one family's private story.
- 5Piety
Vanity throws the party; the chief treats the guests as his to get out.
- 8Courage
The chief and the architect go into the fire so other people can get down.
- 7Republic
A public tower was owed honest construction, and a shortcut broke that debt.
- 5Temperance
The party at the top is vanity, even while the movie enjoys the size of the fire.
- 8Truth
People die because the wiring was cheap, and the film does not hide that cause.
- 5Stewardship
The tower was not kept; what gets stewarded is whoever can still be brought down.
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