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Film · Paramount · 1927

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Wings

56Watch it awake.

The flying is what they love, and a friend dies because somebody was wrong.

The review

Silent, with a score and effects. The first best picture, and people cite it with The Jazz Singer when they argue the year's money. Two small-town pilots love the same girl and then love the flying more. The war is the work. The spectacle is the air. A teen can watch. I won't describe wounds. A friend dies in a mistake, and that stayed after the planes did.

There is a kiss between the men. It is grief, and the film does not build a life on it, so don't hang one there. The girl is not what they end up keeping. They risk each other and the town they left. If you put it on, let the mistake be the talk. The air is beautiful and it is also how a friend gets killed by someone who was wrong.

Journal

Keep Wings in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 56. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Temperance and Stewardship 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

Casablanca

68 instead of 56

Casablanca is still a war film, and it scores 68 instead of 56. What you gain is stewardship: He hands the future to people who can use it.

The eight

8
Industry
The war is the work, and the flying matters more to them than the girl.
3
Household
Two pilots love one girl, then love the flying more; no household is kept.
4
Piety
A friend dies by mistake, and nothing shows a conscience calling the flight off.
8
Courage
They leave a small town for the air and risk the friend they cannot replace.
7
Republic
Small-town pilots go to the war, and the town has to live with who doesn't return.
4
Temperance
The air is a spectacle you are meant to want, even after it takes a friend.
7
Truth
The friend dies by mistake, and the kiss between the men is grief, not a life.
4
Stewardship
A town is left short a friend, and the picture spent its care on the air.

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Film · 20th Century · 2022

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Avatar: The Way of Water

56Watch it awake.

The warning is the same as the first film. The water is not a warehouse either.

The review

The first film said a forest is not inventory. This one moves the same sentence underwater, and the sentence is still true. Jake's trouble is that the war he joined has children now, and a father who made himself a weapon does not get to retire from it when the next boat comes.

The spectacle is the product. Stay for the father who would rather the children learn the reef than learn his war, and notice the film cannot help spending them on the war anyway. Take the warning. Do not take the three hours of fire as the point.

Journal

Keep Avatar: The Way of Water in the record.