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Film · Universal · 1913

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Traffic in Souls

26Leave it.

Adults only, and even then it is a fear picture, not a careful report.

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The review

Keep the children out. Traffic in Souls is adult, a 1913 panic picture named as that year's leader. George Loane Tucker shows a ring that forces women into prostitution, then stages a rescue. I won't describe what is done to them. The white-slavery frame is the film's own panic, not a careful report.

It was a hit because of the fear. That doesn't make it careful or kind. Not a family film. An adult can watch it as a scare the houses paid for, and should say so when it ends. I wouldn't hand it to a teen and hope the rescue cleans the panic.

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No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

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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?

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Chicago

36 instead of 26

Chicago is still a crime film, and it scores 36 instead of 26. What you gain is truth: It tells the truth that the crowd would rather be entertained than just.

The eight

3
Industry
The ring's work is the crime, and the rescue is staged for show.
2
Household
The women are there for the scare, not as a household with a life.
3
Piety
A rescue is staged, but the panic does the preaching.
4
Courage
Getting the women out is the plot's risk, inside a fear picture.
3
Republic
It wants a frightened public, not a careful account of a crime.
2
Temperance
It was a hit because of the fear, and the fear is the hook.
2
Truth
Its white-slavery frame is the film's panic, not a careful report.
2
Stewardship
It leaves a scare behind, and it is not a picture for children.

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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.

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 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.

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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

36 instead of 26

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is still a musical film, and it scores 36 instead of 26. What you gain is truth: It tells the truth that the avenger cannot see: the woman he mourns is in the room.

The eight

4
Industry
They teach her a craft. The craft is how to be kept.
2
Household
The family is a school for the oldest misuse of a girl. That is the household on offer.
2
Piety
No one is answerable. Taste has replaced conscience, and the film adores the taste.
3
Courage
She risks refusing a role. The film is more interested in the wardrobe than in the refusal.
2
Republic
Paris is a cafe. The public consequence of the training is never the subject.
2
Temperance
Appetite is the curriculum. The songs are the syllabus.
4
Truth
The arrangement is named. The film then asks you to find the arrangement delightful.
2
Stewardship
A house inherits a lesson in grooming a girl for a man, set to a waltz.

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