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Film · Warner Bros. · 2017

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Blade Runner 2049

59Watch it awake.

He is not the chosen one. Doing the errand anyway is the soul the company forgot to install. Adults.

The review

K wants to be special because special would mean he was born, and born would mean he was loved on purpose. The film's mercy is to refuse him that comfort and then watch what he does with the refusal. He saves the child anyway. A soul, in this picture, is not a component the Tyrell method forgot. It is a decision to serve a good you do not get credit for.

Adults. It is long and quiet and worth the quiet. Do not let the production design be the memory. The memory is a man who was told he does not matter, and who did the errand regardless.

Journal

Keep Blade Runner 2049 in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 59. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety are the thin ones.

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

Arrival

74 instead of 59

Arrival is still a science-fiction film, and it scores 74 instead of 59. What you gain is household: A mother who chooses the daughter knowing the death.

The eight

7
Industry
A hunter's procedure, a farmer's protein, a city's maintenance. Even the fake men have jobs.
4
Household
A woman who is a program, loved as if she were a wife. The love is real on his side and designed on the other.
3
Piety
Awe at a birth. The sacred, if it is anywhere, is a child the powerful want to own.
8
Courage
He goes on after he learns the story was not about him.
5
Republic
A corporation as a state. The rebel replicants are not yet a people.
5
Temperance
The beauty is severe. The violence is not the pleasure, though the world is cruel.
8
Truth
The lie he was living — that he was the child — is taken from him, and he accepts the fact.
7
Stewardship
He spends himself so the real child can live. That is a legacy from a man who was not supposed to have one.

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Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper

59Watch it awake.

Two girls, one duty. Better than the poster. Still a doll's film.

The review

The pauper works. The princess is being sold into a marriage to save a bankrupt court. The film treats that sale as wrong and the work as honorable, which is more than most pink posters manage. They help each other. The poor girl is not a moral lesson the rich girl consumes.

The songs are candy and the ending is a double wedding. Fine for a child who wants a dress and a plot. Say out loud that a real household is not saved by a secret twin. It is saved by the work the pauper already knew how to do.

Journal

Keep Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 59. 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

WALL-E

73 instead of 59

WALL-E is still a family film, and it scores 73 instead of 59. What you gain is stewardship: The plant is the charge.