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Film · Warner Bros. · 1939

Dark Victory

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Item: Dark Victory
Rating: 63
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63Watch it awake.

Bring a tissue, and don't wait for the illness to change its mind.

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The review

Bette Davis is a heiress who learns a brain illness will blind her and then kill her. I am not going into the medicine. She falls in love with her doctor and decides how to spend the time. I expected a tear-jerker that would cheat. It does not lie about the ending.

Adult, and not for children. I would not call it comfort if someone here is ill, unless they already want it straight. The courage is the last day. My partner and I could watch it after the kids are down. Bravery here is not the illness changing its mind.

Journal

Keep Dark Victory in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 63. Yours can differ.

The glance

Republic is the thin one.

Does anyone owe a neighbor, a law, or a town — or is every person out for themselves?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

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12 Angry Men

75 instead of 63

12 Angry Men is still a drama film, and it scores 75 instead of 63. What you gain is republic: A jury is the whole subject, and it is treated with fear and love.

The eight

5
Industry
He is a doctor; she is a heiress deciding how to spend the time.
7
Household
She loves her doctor, and that love is the life she has left.
6
Piety
She can face the end without a softer story forced on her.
9
Courage
The courage is the last day, which costs the life she would miss.
2
Republic
One woman's illness, not a debt to a neighbor or a town.
7
Temperance
She chooses how to use the time instead of pretending it is open.
9
Truth
It is a tear-jerker, and it does not lie about the ending.
5
Stewardship
What remains is an honest death, not a heiress pulled back.

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Film · United Artists · 1977

A Bridge Too Far

63Watch it awake.

Worth the evening for the cost of a vanity operation. It is a day of duty, and then it is a defeat.

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The review

Richard Attenborough's film is three hours because the operation was a chain, and a chain is the only way to see where it breaks. Paratroopers are dropped to take bridges in the Netherlands. The last bridge, Arnhem, is the one the armor does not reach in time. Radios fail. A road is a single road. Men hold a position because the plan says the armor is coming, and the plan is wrong.

Older teens and adults. You do not need to love a general to learn from this. Ask, at the end, which warning was already in the room before the first aircraft took off. A house that only watches victories will think courage is a guarantee. This film is the correction.

Journal

Keep A Bridge Too Far in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 63. 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

Gettysburg

74 instead of 63

Gettysburg is still a war film, and it scores 74 instead of 63. What you gain is republic: The argument of the war is in the mouths of the officers, and it is not treated as embarrassment.