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Film · United Artists · 1961

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West Side Story

51Watch it awake.

The dances are famous. The feud is the killer, and the romance does not outwit it.

The review

The dances are why it is still played. Under them, two groups of boys have decided a few blocks of New York are worth a war, and a boy from one side wants a girl from the other. The adults are not innocent bystanders. The hatred is what the rooms at home have been teaching. The rumble is not a dance that got out of hand. It is the point the teaching was walking toward.

I will not call the love a solution. The love is real and it is late, and it does not save the friend or the boy. A best picture, and one of the crowds of 1961. The crowd does not make the balcony a model. Older teenagers can watch it and talk about who handed them the feud. Younger children do not need the knives set to music. If you put it on, stay for the ending and do not let the overture be the memory.

Journal

Keep West Side Story in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 51. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Temperance are the thin ones.

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.

Consider this

My Fair Lady

58 instead of 51

My Fair Lady is still a musical film, and it scores 58 instead of 51. What you gain is industry: Speech is taught as drill, and the drill is the plot, not a montage of charm.

The eight

5
Industry
The gangs have nothing to do but guard a block. That idleness is the start of the blood.
4
Household
The households are the feud. Parents and leaders hand the children the hatred.
3
Piety
Almost no reverence. A rumble is where they spend what a prayer might have held.
6
Courage
They walk into the fight knowing what a rumble costs, and they walk in anyway.
6
Republic
A street is a public. The film's debt is to the kids the adults have already armed.
4
Temperance
Romance and pride take the evening, and the film does not pretend either was moderate.
8
Truth
The last bodies are not a metaphor the editor rescues. Hatred did this.
5
Stewardship
A house can inherit the warning. It should not inherit the balcony as a plan for love.

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Film · Prime Video · 2001

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Barbie in the Nutcracker

51Watch it awake.

A small courage story inside a toy commercial. The courage is real enough for a child.

The review

Clara is told she is only a girl, and the plot contradicts the aunt without turning Clara into a brand ambassador for defiance. She is kind to a toy, steady in a strange country, and willing to be the one who moves when the mice have the room. The Nutcracker is a prince who needs help. That order is fine.

It is also a doll's film, and the last frame is a product. Do not pretend otherwise. The middle is still a usable picture of a girl who acts. Put it on for a young child. Do not build a theology out of it.

Journal

Keep Barbie in the Nutcracker in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 51. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Piety and Republic 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.

Consider this

Room on the Broom

66 instead of 51

Room on the Broom is still a family film, and it scores 66 instead of 51. What you gain is industry: The broom is a tool.