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Film · Edison · 1905

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The Whole Dam Family and the Dam Dog

21Leave it.

A postcard pun, a row of faces, and a dog wrecking the pose.

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The review

Porter lifted a postcard joke and filmed the name. A family named Dam gets introduced one face at a time, and a dog wrecks the pose. A house can watch it. There is no story beyond that introduction and the dog. The joke is the name, a swear hiding in a surname.

I laughed the way you laugh at a card and then I was finished. Those faces are not people you would miss at dinner. If the kids ask, I'll tell them the pun and point at the dog. I will not stretch a lineup into a portrait of a family. It never was one.

Journal

Keep The Whole Dam Family and the Dam Dog 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

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

33 instead of 21

Ferris Bueller's Day Off is still a comedy film, and it scores 33 instead of 21. What you gain is courage: Cameron finally refuses his father's fear.

The eight

1
Industry
No one works; Porter films a lineup of faces and a dog.
3
Household
The Dam family is a pun lined up face by face, not a home.
2
Piety
The laugh is a swear tucked into the family name.
1
Courage
A dog wrecks a pose; nobody risks anything they would miss.
1
Republic
There is no town in it, only a family gag and a dog.
4
Temperance
One postcard joke, then it stops; there is no second story.
3
Truth
The name is the joke, so the posed family was never straight.
2
Stewardship
Porter leaves a gag from a card, and the dog ends the pose.

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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 Do not quote him.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.