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Film · UFA · 1925

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Variety

40Leave it.

Adults only: he leaves his wife, and jealousy climbs onto the bar.

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The review

A man leaves his wife for a younger trapeze partner, and the jealousy follows them up onto the bar. Emil Jannings. Adult. German. Not an American gross leader. I'm not describing the killing. The work is the act. The want wrecks the act. That was enough to keep every child out of the room.

He had a wife and he had the act. The want spends both. I know how easily a triangle gets treated as the interesting part, and this one is not a family night. Adults can watch what a broken promise does to the work. They do not need the end narrated. If someone asks how it finishes, the answer is that we are not going through it.

Journal

Keep Variety in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 40. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship 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

The Devil Wears Prada

51 instead of 40

The Devil Wears Prada is still a drama film, and it scores 51 instead of 40. What you gain is courage: Leaving, when leaving costs the future she had started to want, is the brave act.

The eight

7
Industry
The trapeze act is the job, and the want wrecks the act.
6
Household
He leaves his wife for a younger partner in the act.
2
Piety
Jealousy follows them up; nothing in him stops the leaving.
3
Courage
The bar is dangerous work, but the risk he chooses is the affair.
2
Republic
The story is the act and the affair, not a debt owed to a town.
3
Temperance
The want is the plot, and it follows them onto the bar.
7
Truth
He breaks the marriage, and the bill is the wrecked act.
2
Stewardship
The wife is left, and the act they worked is wrecked.

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Film · Touchstone · 1998

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Armageddon

40Leave it.

A father and a crew. The world-ending is a fireworks show. The sacrifice is asserted, not earned.

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The review

Rough men who can do a physical thing are sent to do it in space because the polished men cannot. That is a populist feeling the film is not wrong to have. A father who has been absent tries to bless a marriage before he dies. Those are human scraps.

The scraps are tied to a firework. You will be told when to cry. You do not have to. If the house wants a film about a crew and a real cost, Private Ryan is the adult one and Apollo stories exist. This is a cheer. Leave it.

Journal

Keep Armageddon in the record.