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Film · UFA · 1921

Destiny

Destiny

53Watch it awake.

She follows Death for three chances, and love is not a guarantee.

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The review

Death takes a young man. The woman follows. She is given three chances, told as three stories, to win a life back. Lil Dagover. Fritz Lang, a German picture, and not a crowd in the American houses. A teen can watch it. I put it on late. The frame is a bargain, not a chase, and nobody in our house was waiting on a hit.

I don't know a parent who hasn't rehearsed a deal like that on a bad night. Three chances, three stories, and the terms belong to Death. Love is why she goes. It is not shown as a key that opens anything by itself. A teen can take the gloom if you sit there. It stayed with me longer than the costume nights did.

Journal

Keep Destiny in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 53. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Republic and Stewardship are the thin ones.

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

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

The Wizard of Oz

63 instead of 53

The Wizard of Oz is still a fantasy film, and it scores 63 instead of 53. What you gain is republic: The city is a fraud with a good man behind the curtain.

The eight

  1. 2
    Industry

    Three stories carry a bargain, and no one's job is the point.

  2. 7
    Household

    She follows the young man Death took and tries to win him back.

  3. 7
    Piety

    She bargains with Death and still has to live inside his terms.

  4. 8
    Courage

    She goes after him, spending her chances on a life she would miss.

  5. 2
    Republic

    A private bargain with Death, not a debt owed to any town.

  6. 6
    Temperance

    Three chances are a limit, not a license to want without end.

  7. 6
    Truth

    Death's terms are the frame, and the offer does not soften them.

  8. 4
    Stewardship

    American houses passed it by; the bargain is what you still keep.

Live historically

Tell someone you love which one life you would bargain for, and what you would not trade.

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Film · Prime Video · 1983

A Christmas Story

A Christmas Story

53Watch it awake.

Keep it. Desire, a tangent-prone father, and a feast that survives the disaster.

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The review

Ralphie's want is excessive and completely recognizable. The Old Man's pride in a hideous lamp is the adult version of the same excess, which is why the film is fair. The mother's management of both is the uncredited heroism. There is a meanness in a few of the jokes that a house can talk over. The Chinese Christmas dinner, when the turkey dies, is the scene that knows what a feast is: the people, relocated, still fed.

Watch it every year if you want. Skip any bit that is only a wince. Keep the pink bunny and the humility it requires.

Journal

Keep A Christmas Story in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 53. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Courage and Republic are the thin ones.

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

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

Back to the Future

65 instead of 53

Back to the Future is still a comedy film, and it scores 65 instead of 53. What you gain is courage: George stands up.

The eight

  1. 5
    Industry

    A household kept through a holiday.

  2. 8
    Household

    Parents, a brother, a want.

  3. 3
    Piety

    Christmas as the setting more than the creed.

  4. 4
    Courage

    Little danger. Some social bravery.

  5. 4
    Republic

    A school, a bully, a neighborhood.

  6. 5
    Temperance

    Appetite is the joke and is gently corrected.

  7. 6
    Truth

    Childhood wanting is told truly.

  8. 7
    Stewardship

    The dinner that still happens is the heirloom.

Live historically

Let a child want something, and do not make the present the whole day.

Where to watch

Finding the page.

Live Historic · A Christmas Story · 53IMDb

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Keep going

The next title is the one nearest what this house keeps, then the measure where it is thin. Nothing here is a crowd. It does not leave this device.

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