Film · Paramount · 1969
Pass it on
True Grit
59Watch it awake.
A girl hires the meanest marshal she can find and will not be left behind. She is the spine.
The review
A fourteen-year-old girl hires the meanest marshal she can get to follow her father's killer into Indian Territory. She will not be left at home. He drinks. He is good at the work. She is the reason the work is happening.
From the novel, and the girl is the spine, not the decoration. The marshal is not a man to copy at the table. He is a tool she chose because the job was hard. Older children can meet it. Say that hiring a hard man is not the same as admiring him.
Journal
Keep True Grit in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 59. Yours can differ.
The glance
Piety and Temperance are the thin ones.
Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Shenandoah
71 instead of 59
Shenandoah is still a western film, and it scores 71 instead of 59. What you gain is temperance: He wants to be left alone, which is a restraint, until it becomes a blindness.
The eight
- 7Industry
She hires a marshal. Tracking a killer is the job, and he can do it.
- 6Household
A daughter is settling her father's death. She will not be sent home.
- 4Piety
Duty to a dead father moves her. The marshal's motives are thinner.
- 8Courage
She goes into the territory beside a man she knows is dangerous.
- 5Republic
A killer is being followed because a court was not going to do it.
- 4Temperance
The marshal drinks. The film does not treat that as charm enough.
- 7Truth
She says what she wants and pays for it. He is what she paid for.
- 6Stewardship
A girl finishing her father's account is the thing worth handing on.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
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