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Film · United Artists · 1979

Apocalypse Now

Apocalypse Now

40Leave it.

I would not put that on in this house, not even late.

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The review

A captain is given a job, and the job is to go up a river and kill a colonel. The colonel has made a kingdom and answers to no country. That is the whole spine. The journey is what you sit through, and the destination is not a battle you can root for. It is a man who has already quit every flag that could call him back.

I would not leave this on in a house with kids, and I would not invite anyone to linger on the cruelty. The film is adult for a reason. What stayed with me was the assignment itself: one soldier still under orders, sent to end a man who will not answer. That is a true picture of a war that has lost its country, and it is not a mercy you pass along.

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The glance

Household and Piety and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

  1. 6Industry
  2. 1Household
  3. 3Piety
  4. 7Courage
  5. 6Republic
  6. 2Temperance
  7. 5Truth
  8. 2Stewardship

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Patton

54 instead of 40

Patton is still a war film, and it scores 54 instead of 40. What you gain is industry: He is brilliant at the work of leading and fighting an army.

The eight

  1. 6
    Industry

    A captain's assignment is to go upriver and kill a colonel.

  2. 1
    Household

    No marriage or child is lived anywhere on this river.

  3. 3
    Piety

    Nothing on the journey shows a conscience stopping the colonel or the order.

  4. 7
    Courage

    The captain takes the river toward a man who has made his own kingdom.

  5. 6
    Republic

    A soldier under orders is sent after a man who answers to no country.

  6. 2
    Temperance

    The trip keeps drawing you farther upriver instead of teaching you to stop.

  7. 5
    Truth

    The destination undoes any clean story about a war still under a flag.

  8. 2
    Stewardship

    The journey ends at one man's kingdom, not a place left in good order.

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Film · Warner Bros. · 2018

12 Strong

12 Strong

40Leave it.

The ride is the poster. The war after the ride is not in the film. Adults. Leave it if you want the truth of the long war.

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The review

The story of ODA 595 is worth knowing: a small team sent into Afghanistan to work with Abdul Rashid Dostum against the Taliban in the fall of 2001. Horses, mountains, a war that had already been going on for other people for years. The film takes that material and sands it until the ride is the meaning.

I would not put it on for a boy. If an adult watches it, the correction is mandatory. Those twelve came home. The war did not end when the ride looked glorious. A film that stops at the glory is asking to be used. Decline.

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The glance

Household and Piety and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

  1. 6Industry
  2. 3Household
  3. 2Piety
  4. 6Courage
  5. 4Republic
  6. 3Temperance
  7. 5Truth
  8. 3Stewardship

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

Warhorse One

51 instead of 40

Warhorse One is still a war film, and it scores 51 instead of 40. What you gain is household: The whole stake is a child who has no one else in the valley.

The eight

  1. 6
    Industry

    Horseback coordination with an Afghan ally is a real kind of work, and the opening has it.

  2. 3
    Household

    Families are the goodbye. They are not a home the film returns to with anything hard.

  3. 2
    Piety

    Vengeance is the creed. Little else.

  4. 6
    Courage

    Riding into a war they do not know is courage. The film makes it look like destiny.

  5. 4
    Republic

    September 11 is the warrant for everything that follows, and the film does not test the warrant.

  6. 3
    Temperance

    The charge on horseback is the product. It is meant to be cheered.

  7. 5
    Truth

    The first weeks were real. The movie is the recruiting version of them.

  8. 3
    Stewardship

    What it leaves is a wish. A wish is a bad inheritance from a war that lasted twenty years.

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