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Film · Columbia · 1938

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You Can't Take It with You

56Watch it awake.

The house is fun, and the sermon that business isn't the life comes too cheap.

The review

Best picture, and on some tallies the year's largest: a grandfather who quit business to do what pleased him. The house is full of people making things nobody asked for. His granddaughter loves a banker's son. Capra. A house can watch it. I laughed. The people are dear, and nobody there is asked to be useful.

The sermon says the business is not the life. That is half true and too tidy. Somebody paid for the roof the hobbies happen under. The speech is the Capra speech, charm doing the work of an argument. Watch it with the family and enjoy the clutter. Then notice he never has to show how the groceries arrive once you have quit.

Journal

Keep You Can't Take It with You in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 56. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry 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

The Sheep Detectives

68 instead of 56

The Sheep Detectives is still a comedy film, and it scores 68 instead of 56. What you gain is industry: Keeping a flock is work, and he did it.

The eight

4
Industry
He quit the business, and the hobbies are things nobody asked them to make.
8
Household
A grandfather, a granddaughter, and a full house are the life on screen.
6
Piety
Conscience already made him quit the business the sermon says is not a life.
6
Courage
He gave up the business he would have lived on, and the house follows him.
4
Republic
A banker's family meets a hobby house, and no town is really the subject.
7
Temperance
He puts the business down, and the film sides with wanting less of it.
5
Truth
The sermon is sincere, and charm finishes what the household facts do not.
5
Stewardship
The people are kept and amused, and nobody shows how the house stays fed.

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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.