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Film · Paramount · 1983

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Trading Places

55Watch it awake.

The rich men's bet is the cruelty. It only turns honest when the broker and the hustler notice.

The review

Two rich brothers bet they can swap a commodities broker and a street hustler. The bet is the cruelty. The lines move fast enough that you can keep the scheme and miss the wager. Do not miss it. They put two lives on a bet because they can. The street runs on wanting. So does the exchange.

Then the two men notice and turn it around. That is the part worth staying for. Adults only. Some of the comedy is coarse, and none of it needs a recap at the table. Tell the wager afterward in one sentence. If it sounds like a smart idea, you are still on the brothers' side. The broker and the hustler are the ones who had to live inside it.

Journal

Keep Trading Places in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 55. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Temperance 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.

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The Truman Show

66 instead of 55

The Truman Show is still a comedy film, and it scores 66 instead of 55. What you gain is temperance: The appetite is the audience's, including yours.

The eight

6
Industry
A broker's job and a hustler's days are the materials of a rich men's bet.
3
Household
The brothers are a pair of gamblers. No child or marriage is the life on screen.
6
Piety
The broker and the hustler notice the bet and will not stay its pieces.
7
Courage
Turning the bet around risks the places the rich men just handed them.
6
Republic
The street and the exchange are public hungers, and two men are bet like property.
4
Temperance
Street and exchange both run on wanting. Beating the brothers does not retire either.
7
Truth
The bet says a man is interchangeable. That lie gets a bill when the two men turn it.
5
Stewardship
They refuse to be spent. The market that let the bet happen is still open after.

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Film · 20th Century · 2009

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Avatar

55Watch it awake.

The land is not a warehouse. The sermon is right. The body he borrows, and the war that follows, are the part to hold lightly.

The review

A corporation will burn a place for a rock, and the film is not shy about naming that. That is the line to keep. Jake Sully's answer is to become the people he was sent to betray, and then to lead their war, which is a thinner answer than the warning.

Watch it for the warning. Do not take the blue body as a permission to throw your own life away for a feeling of belonging.

Journal

Keep Avatar in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 55. Yours can differ.

The glance

Republic and Temperance are the thin ones.

Does anyone owe a neighbor, a law, or a town — or is every person out for themselves?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Demon Slayer: Mugen Train

65 instead of 55

Demon Slayer: Mugen Train is still a action film, and it scores 65 instead of 55. What you gain is courage: He stays when the dream offers him his family back.