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Film · RKO · 1941

Citizen Kane

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Item: Citizen Kane
Rating: 55
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55Watch it awake.

It was not a hit, and a palace full of things does not explain the man.

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The review

It was not a hit. I start there because the talk became permanent and the crowd did not come. A reporter tries to learn what a dead publisher meant by his last word. The life is told by people he used: a guardian, a friend, a wife, a manager. A palace full of things. Orson Welles. Adult enough for a teen. I would not give it to a small child and hope for a story they can retell.

Do not treat the childhood object as the whole man. A last word is a bad way to finish a person. He used the people who talk about him. The paper was real work, and the palace is the pile. You can admire how it's told. It still was not the crowd's picture, and a building full of objects is not a household.

Journal

Keep Citizen Kane in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 55. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Courage and Stewardship are the thin ones.

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

Casablanca

68 instead of 55

Casablanca is still a drama film, and it scores 68 instead of 55. What you gain is courage: He walks into the risk he had refused.

The eight

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Industry
He is a newspaper publisher, and the tellers of his life were people he used.
5
Household
A wife is among the people he used, not a marriage the palace kept.
3
Piety
No turn in the life shows conscience stopping him short of the palace.
4
Courage
A reporter chases a last word; the publisher collected things.
7
Republic
A publisher owes a public and leaves them a palace instead.
6
Temperance
The palace is full, and the film does not ask you to envy the pile.
7
Truth
People he used each tell a piece, and one last word will not settle him.
4
Stewardship
He leaves a palace full of things and the people he used to get them.

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Film · New Line · 1984

A Nightmare on Elm Street

55Watch it awake.

The first one is a parents' secret and a girl who will not sleep. The sequels sold the joke.

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The review

People know the glove and the joke. That came later. This one is a dead killer in dreams, a street of parents who share a secret about how he died, and a girl who has to stay awake. The sequels turned him into a punchline. The first film is still the adults' lie.

Not for children. If a teenager is going to meet it anyway, put the secret in front of the monster. Sleep is the ordinary thing she would like to have, and she gives it up because the block will not say what it did. I would rather a house remember a girl who will not lie down on that pact than remember a quip. Leave the later ones off.

Journal

Keep A Nightmare on Elm Street in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 55. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

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.

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Alien

66 instead of 55

Alien is still a horror film, and it scores 66 instead of 55. What you gain is industry: A towing crew with ranks and a quarantine rule, and the job is the plot.