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Film · Columbia · 1953

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The Wild One

26Leave it.

Boys kept the jacket, the town turned mean, and neither is a model I would hand over.

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The review

Boys kept the jacket. That is the part I trust least. A motorcycle gang rides into a town and will not leave. The leader cannot say what he wants. The town is weak, and then it is vengeful. The gang is pure want. Not a model. I am not quoting the line people used to repeat.

I see why the young wanted the look. The film still shows a town that cannot hold its shape and a man with nothing he can name. That is a poor souvenir. If a kid asks because of the jacket, sit there and say the gang is not a style to copy. The town's turn to vengeance is not a repair. Nobody rides out with a clearer want than they rode in with.

Journal

Keep The Wild One in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 26. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage 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

Deliverance

39 instead of 26

Deliverance is still a drama film, and it scores 39 instead of 26. What you gain is truth: The river stops being the point, and the film will not heal what replaced it.

The eight

2
Industry
The gang does no work; they only interrupt a town that does.
2
Household
No spouse, parent, or child is a life anywhere in this story.
2
Piety
He cannot name what he wants, and nothing in him stops the gang.
3
Courage
Riding into town is not courage; the town is weak, then vengeful.
5
Republic
A town is owed some order, fails, and answers with vengeance instead.
2
Temperance
The gang is pure want, and the jacket is what the boys carried out.
3
Truth
The leader cannot say what he wants, so no promise of his can hold.
2
Stewardship
The town is left meaner, and the young left with a jacket.

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Film · MGM · 1958

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Gigi

26Leave it.

A best picture. The training is the rot, and the marriage at the end does not redeem the school.

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The review

It won the best picture of its year, and the award does not change the curriculum. A grandmother and an aunt are training a young woman in Paris to be the mistress of a rich man: how to choose jewels, how to behave at the table, how to be expensive. The young man who has been wandering through other such arrangements decides he wants this one, and the happy ending is that he marries her instead. The film expects the marriage to retire the question.

It does not. The school was the story, and the school is a preparation of a girl for a man's use. The songs are lovely and the loveliness is the danger, because loveliness is how the curriculum gets past a room. I would not put it on for a young woman as a charming antique. If adults watch it as history, say what the aunt was actually teaching before the last waltz. The last waltz is not a pardon.

Journal

Keep Gigi in the record.