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Film · Pathé · 1923

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Why Worry?

44Leave it.

His illness was a rich man's hobby until a real fight made him move.

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The review

The illness is a luxury. I need that sentence first, because Harold Lloyd is funny enough to hide it. A rich man who thinks he is ill lands in a Latin American revolution and has to act well to get out. A giant of a man becomes his friend. The fight is not a luxury. A house can watch it. Ours did, the younger one included, since the shape of the comedy is plain.

I don't like a whole country used as a cure for a man who was never sick. The friendship is what earns the hour. He has to move, or there is no picture. If your worry has been a soft chair, this will poke you. It poked me. I still wouldn't tell a child the revolution was only a gag, because the fight is not one.

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No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

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The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Republic and Stewardship 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

Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story

56 instead of 44

Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story is still a comedy film, and it scores 56 instead of 44. What you gain is industry: The jokes are labor, practiced for years, not a confession with a spotlight.

The eight

3
Industry
A rich man's false illness; the giant beside him does the labor.
2
Household
No marriage or child; a giant of a man becomes his friend.
4
Piety
He has to act well to get out, which is as far as conscience goes.
6
Courage
A luxury patient has to move once the fight is not a spa.
4
Republic
Someone else's revolution is the storm he uses to leave.
7
Temperance
The illness is a luxury, and the real fight puts that worry down.
6
Truth
He only thinks he is ill, and the fight bills the falsehood.
3
Stewardship
He gets out; the country he landed in is not what he repairs.

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Alice in Wonderland

44Leave it.

Nonsense is funny until it is a government. She comes back. Good.

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The review

Wonderland is a place where authority is a temper: a queen who executes, a tea party that never ends, a caterpillar who sneers. Alice is polite and then she is done. The film's best moment is her refusal to take the queen's court as a real court. Curiosity brought her in. Judgment takes her out.

A child can enjoy the jokes. Say that the jokes are not a model of how a house or a school should run. A world that changes the rules to watch you stumble is not a wonder. It is a bully with a teapot.