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Film · 20th Century · 1985

Cocoon

Name: Cocoon scores 43 — Live Historic
Item: Cocoon
Rating: 43
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43Leave it.

Gentle about old age, and too fond of leaving Earth so you don't die.

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The review

Old friends in a Florida home sneak into a pool full of alien cocoons and come out feeling young. A boy and a grandfather keep it from being only a gag about age. Then someone offers them a ride off Earth so they don't have to die. Some take it. The film is gentle with old bodies. It gets sentimental about the exit, as if not dying were automatically love.

I'd watch it beside the older people in the house, and I'd talk back to the ending. Youth from a pool they weren't invited into is already a strange loan. Leaving the planet spends the people who stay. The boy is standing inside that cost. Enjoy the affection between them. Don't nod along as if the kind choice is the one that skips a death.

Journal

Keep Cocoon in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 43. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Piety and Republic 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.

Consider this

Blade Runner

59 instead of 43

Blade Runner is still a science-fiction film, and it scores 59 instead of 43. What you gain is industry: He is hired to retire them, so the work is killing under a cleaner name.

The eight

2
Industry
They are retired; the only labor in the plot is sneaking into a pool.
7
Household
Old friends, a boy, and a grandfather make age a family fact, not a costume.
4
Piety
The offer to skip death is a real temptation, and the film is tender toward yes.
6
Courage
Leaving Earth means leaving the boy and the place that would still be here.
3
Republic
A rest home and a pool, not a town; the duty on screen is mostly to kin.
3
Temperance
They take the borrowed youth, and some take a life that does not have to end.
5
Truth
The youth is real in the pool and false as a condition they can keep on land.
4
Stewardship
Some go, so the boy may be left with a departure instead of more years.

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Film · Paramount · 2016

13 Hours

43Leave it.

A night, a compound, a political argument wearing a battle. Adults. Do not let the argument be settled by the gunfire.

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The review

On September 11, 2012, the American compound in Benghazi was attacked and four Americans were killed, including the ambassador. The contractors at a nearby CIA annex fought through the night. That much a house should know. Michael Bay's film knows how to film a roof. It does not know how to handle a disputed record, and it does not try. Everyone who hesitates is a villain. Everyone who shoots is a truth-teller.

Adults, and even then I would rather they read two accounts than watch one bay of muzzle flash. If you do watch it, separate the bravery of the men on the annex from the brief the film is writing. Bravery is not a party. A dead ambassador is not a talking point. The film wants both of those sentences to be false. They are not.

Journal

Keep 13 Hours in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 43. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship 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.

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The Covenant

63 instead of 43

The Covenant is still a war film, and it scores 63 instead of 43. What you gain is household: A wife and a child are why the interpreter cannot simply be brave in the abstract.