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The Wolf of Wall Street

16Leave it.

Scorsese shows the bill. The camera throws the party anyway. Leave it.

Take controlThis scores 16. The Wolf of Wall Street cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

Jordan Belfort robbed people over the phone and the film is three hours of how good the robbery felt. Defenders say the excess is the indictment. Sometimes a frame is an indictment. More often, in a crowded room, this frame is a recruitment poster, and the people being recruited are not subtle about it.

The standard does not require you to be humorless about sin. It requires you to notice who the humor serves. Here it serves the man with the yacht, not the person who lost the mortgage. You have limited evenings. Do not spend three of their hours apprenticing to a thief because the editing is superb. The editing is superb. That is not a defense.

Journal

Keep The Wolf of Wall Street in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 16. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth 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

Cruella

33 instead of 16

Cruella is still a crime film, and it scores 33 instead of 16. What you gain is industry: Design is a real craft.

The eight

3
Industry
Hustle without a product. The labor is separating a fool from his savings.
1
Household
A wife is a prop that gets replaced. Children are scenery.
1
Piety
The only liturgy is the sales floor chant.
3
Courage
Nerve in the service of a theft is not courage.
1
Republic
The law is a mark. The public is a mark.
1
Temperance
This is a catechism of appetite. Three hours of it.
2
Truth
The narrator is a liar telling you he is a liar, and daring you to enjoy it.
1
Stewardship
What it leaves a young man is a script for his worst decade.

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show

16Leave it.

Funny if you already live in the costume. Not for kids, and not a little church.

Take controlThis scores 16. The Rocky Horror Picture Show cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

People dressed for it. A newly engaged couple breaks down and enters a castle where a scientist from another planet is building a man. The songs became a midnight ritual. The joke is innocence walking into appetite and staying. If you are already inside that joke, it is funny. It is adult, and it is not for children.

They arrived engaged. The night does not hand that back. Staying is the punchline. I would not play this where a kid can hear the songs and decide the castle is the more interesting life. A ritual you dress up for is still a ritual, and this one is organized around wanting, not around getting anybody home.