Film · Columbia · 1964
Fail-Safe
68Worth an evening.
Worth an evening. The same year as the famous laugh. This one stays in the room and pays.
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The review
The same year as the famous comedy about the bomb, a straight film asked the harder question and fewer people went. A failure in the system sends bombers past the point where a radio can turn them around. The president negotiates with the Soviet premier while the planes fly, and discovers that sincerity is not a recall code. I am not going to soften the bargain he offers. The bargain is the moral, and it is awful, and the awfulness is the point: a man who ordered the machine does not get to blame the machine at the end.
Adults, and worth more of the evening than the satire if the house has only one of them in it. Ask when he stops looking for a clever solution. The film is on the side of that moment and not on the side of anyone's competence. Competence started the problem. Responsibility is what is left. A house that only knows the laugh from the same year knows half the decade's mind, and the smaller half.
Journal
Keep Fail-Safe in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 68. Yours can differ.
The glance
Household is the thin one.
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
The Night of the Hunter
79 instead of 68
The Night of the Hunter is still a thriller film, and it scores 79 instead of 68. What you gain is household: A widow's children are hunted until an old woman's house becomes the shelter.
The eight
- 7Industry
The system is the work: checks, radios, and a failure in the checks.
- 4Household
The president's wife is asleep in the house. The household is what the decision spends.
- 5Piety
The weight on the president is moral, and the film does not give him a technical escape.
- 7Courage
He does the unbearable thing rather than pretend the bombers can still be waved off.
- 8Republic
Two cities of people are the public, and he is answerable to both of them at once.
- 7Temperance
No jokes, no gadgets to love. The restraint is the film's whole manner.
- 9Truth
A safeguard that fails is still a human responsibility. The film will not move the blame onto the machine.
- 7Stewardship
A house inherits a picture of a decision with no clean hands, which is rarer than a warning.
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