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Film · United Artists · 1939

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Wuthering Heights

39Leave it.

It plays like a great love and leaves the next people the wreck.

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The review

Don't let the moors talk you into calling this a model. Heathcliff and Cathy, class keeping them apart, Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon. The love is also a ruin that lands on the next generation. Living rooms remember the first part and get shy about the second.

Adult enough, and not a simple love story. The film stops short of the book's full cruelty, so it is softer than the novel and still not soft. I would not give it to a child as the shape of love. If two people here think a feeling that large excuses the house, this picture should not be their evidence.

Journal

Keep Wuthering Heights in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 39. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance 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

The Shape of Water

49 instead of 39

The Shape of Water is still a romance film, and it scores 49 instead of 39. What you gain is industry: Cleaning a lab is the work, and the film takes the cleaners more seriously than the colonels.

The eight

2
Industry
No trade matters; class is what keeps the pair apart.
7
Household
Their love ruins the house and lands on the next generation.
2
Piety
Conscience does not stop them before other people are spent.
4
Courage
They do not guard a life they would miss; the house is burned.
4
Republic
Class is the local rule, and the next generation inherits the break.
3
Temperance
The passion is the want, and the moors invite you to share it.
6
Truth
Not a simple love story, though it softens the book's cruelty.
3
Stewardship
The people after them are left the ruin, not a standing house.

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Film · Warner Bros. · 1972

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Deliverance

39Leave it.

They wanted a wild weekend, and the film never gives that weekend back.

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The review

Four suburban men wanted a last wild weekend on a river a dam is about to bury. They got a trip they were not built for. The river was the point, and then it was not. One of them is changed in a way the film does not heal. That refusal to tidy the ending is the honest part.

Adult. Do not describe the assault, and do not make a contest out of who can sit through it. The dam was already going to spend the river for people who do not live on it. One of them carries that change home. If someone in the room goes quiet, stay with that, not the canoe.

Journal

Keep Deliverance in the record.