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Film · MGM · 1949

Battleground

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Item: Battleground
Rating: 68
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68Worth an evening.

A squad in the snow, nobody famous, and it felt closer to the war than the speeches.

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The review

Snow, a replacement, and a man who wants to go home. That is the size of the story. The Battle of the Bulge, from a squad. The work is staying in a line. The heroes are not famous. It was made soon after the war by people who knew the cold. Older teens. Leave the wounds alone.

I recognized the fellow who wants his own kitchen more than he wants to be brave. The film does not mock him, and it does not let that want dissolve the line. Nobody rides in from headquarters to be the point. Plenty of war pictures need a great man. This one leaves the cold, the squad, and the plain fact that going home was the thing they might miss.

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No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 68. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household is the thin one.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

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The Best Years of Our Lives

76 instead of 68

The Best Years of Our Lives is still a war film, and it scores 76 instead of 68. What you gain is household: The banker's children have grown, and the bombardier's wife is now a stranger.

The eight

8
Industry
The job is a squad in snow: a replacement, and holding the line.
4
Household
One soldier wants to go home, and home never becomes the scene.
5
Piety
Wanting his own life does not release him from the men beside him.
9
Courage
They risk the Bulge, which is the life and the home they would miss.
8
Republic
The debt is to the squad and the line, not to any famous general.
7
Temperance
The wish to go home is real, and it is not allowed to break the line.
7
Truth
No great-man tale; the picture stays with ordinary soldiers in the cold.
6
Stewardship
What is left is a line held by men the film refuses to make famous.

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Film · Prime Video · 1942

Casablanca

68Worth an evening.

Keep it. A private wound is not a reason to sit out the fight.

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The review

Rick's neutrality is a costume for a hurt. Ilsa did not leave for a whim, and the film is adult enough to say so without making either of them a villain of the heart. The letters of transit are a public good disguised as a plot device. When he gives them up, he is not choosing loneliness as a style. He is putting a marriage and a resistance ahead of a feeling that was real and is no longer his to spend.

Watch it with anyone old enough to understand a goodbye. Then refuse the poster version, where the love is the point. The love is the test. The point is that he gets on the right side of a war.

Journal

Keep Casablanca in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 68. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety is the thin one.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

The Best Years of Our Lives

76 instead of 68

The Best Years of Our Lives is still a drama film, and it scores 76 instead of 68. What you gain is household: The banker's children have grown, and the bombardier's wife is now a stranger.

The eight

6
Industry
A cafe is a real business in a city of exiles.
5
Household
He honors a marriage that is not his.
4
Piety
Cynicism cracks. Little explicit faith.
8
Courage
He walks into the risk he had refused.
8
Republic
A occupied city, and a man who stops pretending it is only a nightclub.
7
Temperance
Feeling governed at the last minute.
8
Truth
Ilsa's reason is allowed to be true.
8
Stewardship
He hands the future to people who can use it.

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Live Historic · Casablanca · 68IMDb

Battleground

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The Best Years of Our Lives

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