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Film · Paramount · 1946

Blue Skies

Name: Blue Skies scores 35 — Live Historic
Item: Blue Skies
Rating: 35
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35Leave it.

The songs are why anyone went, and the marriage is just the string they hung them on.

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The review

Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire again, with a stack of Irving Berlin songs between them. I knew the tunes before I cared about the people, which is the order the country paid in. A nightclub romance fails and is remembered in numbers. The marriage is a thread. A house can watch it. I was fine with the dancing. I got restless the moment I tried to say who stayed with whom.

It is thinner than the inn picture, and that is a comparison, not a compliment. You come for Berlin. You do not come because a household is being kept. If the kids like the numbers, let them stay. Don't tell yourself the night was about a marriage. The songs outlast the people who were supposed to be holding them.

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Keep Blue Skies in the record.

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The glance

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

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

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Guys and Dolls

48 instead of 35

Guys and Dolls is still a musical film, and it scores 48 instead of 35. What you gain is piety: The mission is real, and the plot still uses it as the stake of a bet.

The eight

6
Industry
Nightclub work is the setting; Berlin's songs are why the country paid.
4
Household
A nightclub romance fails, and the marriage is only a thread.
2
Piety
No number asks a conscience to stop the romance or the show.
3
Courage
The romance fails and is remembered, which is loss without a risk.
2
Republic
A large musical gross, and nobody owes a neighbor or a town.
3
Temperance
You are walked from one Berlin song to the next, and that is the want.
4
Truth
The failed romance is remembered in songs, not kept as a promise.
4
Stewardship
What the country kept was the songs, not the marriage between them.

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Film · Warner Bros. · 1971

A Clockwork Orange

35Leave it.

The cure is a theft, and the film still lingers on the crimes it claims to hate.

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The review

He is caught after leading beatings and rape, and the state calls what follows a cure. They condition him until the wish to do harm makes him sick. He can no longer choose. The film hates that cure, and on this one point I agree. Forced goodness is not goodness. A reflex is not a conscience. A man who cannot choose has not been restored to anything.

Do not give it the evening anyway. It shows the crimes, and plenty of people came for the showing. Adult. Leave the assaults undescribed, and do not dare a friend into the seat. The honest scrap is the bill on the treatment. Everything before that scrap dresses up the ruin. You can refuse the showing and still keep the point about choice.

Journal

Keep A Clockwork Orange in the record.

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The glance

Industry and Household and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

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The Godfather Part II

46 instead of 35

The Godfather Part II is still a crime film, and it scores 46 instead of 35. What you gain is industry: An immigrant's labor, then a crime that calls itself a business.