Film · Paramount · 1953
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The War of the Worlds
66Worth an evening.
Older kids can watch if you skip the melting and keep the humble ending.
The review
The priest is who stayed with me, not the machines. Martian machines destroy a town and then cities. A scientist and a young woman try to stay alive. A priest walks toward a machine because he believes he can speak to it. The armies fail. Bacteria do what the armies could not. I won't linger on melting bodies. Older children, with an adult who will talk.
The ending is a humility. All that metal, and the smallest living things finish it. The priest is wrong about the conversation and still spends himself. The pair are not a marriage, just two people trying not to die, so don't wait for a household to land in your lap. You leave with wreckage and a smaller boast. That felt like the right size.
Journal
Keep The War of the Worlds in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 66. Yours can differ.
The glance
Household is the thin one.
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.
The eight
- 7Industry
Scientists and armies do their work, and bacteria outdo both.
- 4Household
A scientist and a young woman flee; no child or marriage is the life.
- 8Piety
A priest walks toward a machine because he still believes speech might reach it.
- 8Courage
He walks up to the machine while the armies have already failed.
- 8Republic
The town and the cities are owed a defense, and that defense does not hold.
- 5Temperance
It is a spectacle hit, and the quiet ending has to work against that.
- 7Truth
Trust in talk and trust in armies both come due, and both fail.
- 6Stewardship
Cities are wrecked; what remains is humility, not a weapon that worked.
Where to watch
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