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The Warrens of Virginia

46Watch it awake.

The household splits for the war, and the romance wants reunion more than politics.

The review

A household is split by the Civil War, and a spy story runs through the courtship. DeMille, 1915. Fine on a family night. I don't mind the romance. I mind any claim that it handled the war. The romance wants the reunion more than it wants the politics. It does not settle the war.

A spy story means someone in that courtship is lying. The picture keeps the pairing anyway. A split household has plenty to risk, and this one spends that risk on getting back together. That's a choice, not a history. The war is still unfinished when the romance is done. Say so before anyone calls the reunion a settlement.

Journal

Keep The Warrens of Virginia in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 46. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Republic and Temperance and Truth 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

The Patriot

59 instead of 46

The Patriot is still a war film, and it scores 59 instead of 46. What you gain is stewardship: He wants the children to have a country.

The eight

5
Industry
A spy's work runs through the courtship and is not just a costume.
7
Household
The household is split by the war, so the family is the life here.
4
Piety
Conscience about the war loses to a romance that wants reunion.
6
Courage
Spying inside a split household risks the people the courtship would keep.
4
Republic
The war is the public debt, and the picture prefers the private reunion.
4
Temperance
The courtship is the want that outruns the politics of the war.
4
Truth
A spy story puts a lie in the courtship, and reunion is not a verdict.
3
Stewardship
They can reunite and still leave the war unsettled for everyone else.

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Film · United Artists · 1964

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A Hard Day's Night

46Watch it awake.

Watch it awake, or put it on for the songs and the work. Nobody is asked to become worse.

The review

They have a television appearance to make, a train to catch, and an afternoon in which the city wants pieces of them. The jokes are at the expense of managers, advertisers, and anyone who needs the boys to stand still and be a product. The songs are the work, performed as work. Nobody is asked to betray a friend. Nobody is asked to be cruel to a girl. For a phenomenon as large as this one, that is a remarkable restraint, and I will credit it.

A family can put it on. The limit is that it is a day, not a life, and a day of fame is a thin diet if it becomes the only picture of adulthood in the house. Watch the studio session and ask who in the room was doing a job seriously. Include them. The screaming outside is the decade. The work inside is the part worth keeping. A very large cultural fact of 1964. The fact is not a reason. The songs and the decency are.

Journal

Keep A Hard Day's Night in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 46. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Courage and Republic 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

Singin' in the Rain

60 instead of 46

Singin' in the Rain is still a comedy film, and it scores 60 instead of 46. What you gain is courage: Telling the public the truth.