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Film · United Artists · 1919

Broken Blossoms

Broken Blossoms

40Leave it.

The kindness is real, and Barthelmess in yellowface is still a white actor's costume.

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The review

Say the makeup first. Then the kindness can be talked about without a dodge. A Chinese man in London is kind to a girl her father beats. Richard Barthelmess plays the Chinese man in yellowface. Lillian Gish is the girl. Griffith, United Artists, 1919. Not The Miracle Man's gross. The picture the talk kept. A teen can watch it. I am not describing the beating.

The kindness is real. I won't take that back to make the complaint easy, and I won't let it wash the face. The face is a white actor's costume. A teen can sit with it if someone in the room says yellowface out loud before it starts. Mercy from a neighbor is not the same thing as a white man painted to stand in for that neighbor.

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The glance

Industry and Republic and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

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

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

Fury

51 instead of 40

Fury is still a drama film, and it scores 51 instead of 40. What you gain is truth: He was innocent of the crime and not innocent of the revenge.

The eight

  1. 2
    Industry

    Kindness is the action, and no trade is what this picture is about.

  2. 5
    Household

    A father and the girl he beats are a household, and it is a life of harm.

  3. 5
    Piety

    His kindness is a real mercy, and the yellowface is not part of that mercy.

  4. 5
    Courage

    Kindness toward a girl her father beats is the risk the story treats as real.

  5. 4
    Republic

    A neighbor is kind in London, and the city is not what stops the father.

  6. 5
    Temperance

    It does not train you to want the harm; the kindness is what the talk kept.

  7. 3
    Truth

    The kindness is real, and the face is a white actor's yellowface costume.

  8. 3
    Stewardship

    What the talk kept is a real kindness played in a white actor's makeup.

Live historically

Before a teen watches Broken Blossoms, say Richard Barthelmess plays the Chinese man in yellowface.

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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?

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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.

Live historically

If you mention the horseback charge, also say the year the war ended, and how long that was.

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