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Film · Universal · 1989

Do the Right Thing

Name: Do the Right Thing scores 63 — Live Historic
Item: Do the Right Thing
Rating: 63
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63Watch it awake.

A day that ends in a fire because a block would not tell itself the truth at noon.

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The review

People quote the trash can and skip the afternoon. The afternoon is the film. A man has built a shop in a neighborhood that is changing, his son does not want the shop, and a young man wants the pictures on the wall to include him. Every conversation is a chance to tell the truth at a size the day can survive. They take almost none of them.

It is not a manual for a riot, and it is not a defense of the man who will not see past his own door. It is a picture of what a block becomes when pride is cheaper than a sentence. Adults. Watch it before you have an opinion about the last ten minutes, and then sit with the fact that the last ten minutes were built by noon.

Journal

Keep Do the Right Thing in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 63. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Temperance 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.

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Little Women

75 instead of 63

Little Women is still a drama film, and it scores 75 instead of 63. What you gain is household: Sisters and a mother.

The eight

7
Industry
Sal's pizzeria is a life's work, and the film does not pretend the work is nothing.
5
Household
Fathers and sons are in the shop. The block is a household that cannot get through one day.
4
Piety
Conscience is present as a question, not as a church. Someone has to answer it.
7
Courage
Mookie has to choose in the street, with no good costume for the choice.
8
Republic
A neighborhood is a public. The film asks who it is for when the heat breaks.
4
Temperance
The heat, the radio, and the insult are indulged until they are the plot.
9
Truth
Nobody is allowed a clean speech that ends the day. That is the honesty.
6
Stewardship
What the day hands the children is a burned shop and a story they will inherit.

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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.