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Film · 20th Century Fox · 1970

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Tora! Tora! Tora!

63Watch it awake.

The day as procedure. Not a romance. Worth an evening if you want the hour and not the legend.

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The review

The film was made by American and Japanese crews, and it behaves like a reconstruction. Washington underestimates. Tokyo argues. A radar operator sees planes and is told not to worry. The attack, when it comes, is the bill for all of those rooms. There is no love story to make the runtime feel like a movie, which is why some people find it dry, and why it belongs on this shelf.

Watch it awake, with a map if you have one. It is not for a young child. Say that a surprise is rarely a surprise in every office. Someone saw something. The question a republic has to ask is why the seeing did not become an order in time.

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The glance

Household and Piety are the thin ones.

  1. 8Industry
  2. 3Household
  3. 3Piety
  4. 6Courage
  5. 7Republic
  6. 8Temperance
  7. 8Truth
  8. 7Stewardship

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Hacksaw Ridge

74 instead of 63

Hacksaw Ridge is still a war film, and it scores 74 instead of 63. What you gain is piety: Faith that costs a rank and a rifle.

The eight

  1. 8
    Industry

    Radar, codes, carriers, a chain of command. The work is bureaucratic and then it is fatal.

  2. 3
    Household

    Households are offscreen. The film is the institutions that failed them.

  3. 3
    Piety

    No piety. A clear morning is not treated as providence.

  4. 6
    Courage

    Courage appears late, in men who wake up inside an attack they were not ready for.

  5. 7
    Republic

    Two governments, two navies, one morning. The film is interested in how a republic and an empire both misread the hour.

  6. 8
    Temperance

    Almost no personal subplot. That restraint is the virtue.

  7. 8
    Truth

    It shows the mistakes on both sides instead of a single villain's genius.

  8. 7
    Stewardship

    What it leaves is a morning a country still points at, seen as a chain of choices.

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Film · United Artists · 1977

A Bridge Too Far

A Bridge Too Far

63Watch it awake.

Worth the evening for the cost of a vanity operation. It is a day of duty, and then it is a defeat.

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The review

Richard Attenborough's film is three hours because the operation was a chain, and a chain is the only way to see where it breaks. Paratroopers are dropped to take bridges in the Netherlands. The last bridge, Arnhem, is the one the armor does not reach in time. Radios fail. A road is a single road. Men hold a position because the plan says the armor is coming, and the plan is wrong.

Older teens and adults. You do not need to love a general to learn from this. Ask, at the end, which warning was already in the room before the first aircraft took off. A house that only watches victories will think courage is a guarantee. This film is the correction.

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The glance

Household and Piety are the thin ones.

  1. 7Industry
  2. 4Household
  3. 4Piety
  4. 8Courage
  5. 6Republic
  6. 6Temperance
  7. 8Truth
  8. 7Stewardship

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

Gettysburg

74 instead of 63

Gettysburg is still a war film, and it scores 74 instead of 63. What you gain is republic: The argument of the war is in the mouths of the officers, and it is not treated as embarrassment.

The eight

  1. 7
    Industry

    Staff work, drops, radios, and a bridge. The labor is the subject.

  2. 4
    Household

    Dutch families are in the street the army is using. They are not the plot, and the film at least sees them.

  3. 4
    Piety

    A chaplain, a prayer, a burial. Faith is present and not in charge.

  4. 8
    Courage

    Holding a bridge you were not reinforced for is the courage, and it is not rewarded.

  5. 6
    Republic

    Allied generals want a stroke that ends the war by autumn. The film is the bill for the want.

  6. 6
    Temperance

    The star cast is a temptation to watch faces. The operation is still the point.

  7. 8
    Truth

    It is a famous defeat, and the film does not restage it as a moral victory.

  8. 7
    Stewardship

    What it hands on is the price of a plan that could not hear the intelligence it disliked.

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