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Film · Columbia · 1973

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The Way We Were

59Watch it awake.

The marriage fails for a reason, and the song is what people kept instead.

The review

People kept the hair and the song. The film kept a reason, which is the better half. A passionate political woman and a gifted, easy writer love each other from college through the war and the Hollywood blacklists. She cannot stop pushing. He cannot stand the cost. The marriage fails because of that, and the picture understands it. This is not a sad ending pasted on a romance that was fine.

Watch the marriage, not the ballad. Which of them are you when a conviction gets expensive? Would you rather be right than stay? The blacklist is one room where that choice happens, not a costume for the decade. Leave the ballad for some other day.

Journal

Keep The Way We Were in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 59. Yours can differ.

The glance

Stewardship is the thin one.

What is left for the people who come after — a place, a craft, a name?

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Groundhog Day

69 instead of 59

Groundhog Day is still a romance film, and it scores 69 instead of 59. What you gain is stewardship: It hands you the same Tuesday as a place to practice.

The eight

6
Industry
He writes, she lives her politics, and the blacklist reaches the work itself.
8
Household
The marriage is the life of the film, and it fails for a reason the film understands.
5
Piety
Her conviction will not bend, and his comfort will not pay what that conviction asks.
6
Courage
She risks the easy marriage; he will not risk the life he wants to keep.
6
Republic
The Hollywood blacklist makes a private love answer to a public punishment.
5
Temperance
She cannot stop pushing, and he cannot stand a life that is not easy.
7
Truth
The film tells why the marriage fails; audiences kept the hair and the song.
4
Stewardship
What people carried out is a ballad, not a marriage anyone could live in.

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Film · Prime Video · 2004

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Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper

59Watch it awake.

Two girls, one duty. Better than the poster. Still a doll's film.

The review

The pauper works. The princess is being sold into a marriage to save a bankrupt court. The film treats that sale as wrong and the work as honorable, which is more than most pink posters manage. They help each other. The poor girl is not a moral lesson the rich girl consumes.

The songs are candy and the ending is a double wedding. Fine for a child who wants a dress and a plot. Say out loud that a real household is not saved by a secret twin. It is saved by the work the pauper already knew how to do.

Journal

Keep Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 59. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety is the thin one.

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

WALL-E

73 instead of 59

WALL-E is still a family film, and it scores 73 instead of 59. What you gain is stewardship: The plant is the charge.