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Film · Paramount · 2002

We Were Soldiers

Name: We Were Soldiers scores 73 — Live Historic
Item: We Were Soldiers
Rating: 73
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73Worth an evening.

A battle and a base housing. The courage is shared with the people who waited for the car to pass.

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The review

The first half is a battle that is allowed to be confusing and fatal. The second fact, which the film is right to include, is the housing block where the taxis bring the deaths. A war picture that never cuts to the kitchen is a lie about who pays. This one cuts to the kitchen.

Adults. The violence is the battle. Watch it for Moore's promise and for the wives, not for the explosion. Then do not use those men as a slogan. The charge is to know a living soldier's family by name if one lives on your street, and to stop at the telegram long enough to understand it.

Journal

Keep We Were Soldiers in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 73. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety is the thin one.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

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Taking Chance

81 instead of 73

Taking Chance is still a war film, and it scores 81 instead of 73. What you gain is temperance: No appetite.

The eight

8
Industry
Command is a craft: he trains them, then he stays on the ground with them.
8
Household
The wives are not a cutaway. The telegram is a household event.
6
Piety
Moore prays. The film lets the prayer be specific and unembarrassed.
9
Courage
He tells them he will walk off the field with them, and the film holds him to it.
7
Republic
A republic sending men to a valley, and a commander who will not pretend the valley is abstract.
6
Temperance
The combat is severe and then it stops. It is not a recruitment ad, though it loves the soldiers.
7
Truth
Based on the men who were there. The enemy is also allowed to be a commander with a plan.
7
Stewardship
What he owes them is to be the last one off, and to tell the country what the valley cost.

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Film · Columbia · 1961

A Raisin in the Sun

73Worth an evening.

Worth an evening. The check is not the prize. A house, and the man the son is going to be, are.

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A father dies and the insurance money arrives in an apartment that is too small for the people in it. The son wants to invest in a liquor store and become someone the check can make him. The mother wants a house. The sister wants a school. The daughter-in-law wants the marriage to survive the son's idea of himself. A man from the neighborhood they are moving into offers to pay them not to come. The offer is the country's sentence, and the film does not blur the man's politeness into innocence.

This is one of the few pictures of the decade I would clear a weeknight for without a hedge. Watch it as a family argument before you watch it as a document. Ask what the son thought the money was for, and what his mother knew it was for. The answers are a stature and a house. The film is on the side of the house, and it is right. Older children can sit through it. The yelling is the sound of people who are not done with each other.

Journal

Keep A Raisin in the Sun in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 73. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety is the thin one.

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

It's a Wonderful Life

85 instead of 73

It's a Wonderful Life is still a drama film, and it scores 85 instead of 73. What you gain is piety: Prayer is not a joke here.

The eight

7
Industry
The mother cleans other people's houses. The son drives. The work is not abstract.
9
Household
Three generations in a small apartment are the subject, and each of them is a person.
6
Piety
The mother's standard is the conscience of the picture, and it is not a speech from nowhere.
7
Courage
She does the thing the neighborhood association is counting on a tired woman not to do.
7
Republic
A house in a white neighborhood is the public fact, and the film does not treat it as a symbol only.
6
Temperance
The son's scheme is the appetite. The mother will not let the scheme spend the family.
8
Truth
A dream can be a lie if it costs the people in the room. The film makes him see the cost.
8
Stewardship
A house inherits a mother who will not trade the family for a man's idea of stature.

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We Were Soldiers

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