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Film · UFA · 1926

Faust

Name: Faust scores 29 — Live Historic
Item: Faust
Rating: 29
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29Leave it.

A scholar sells his soul, a girl pays, and the devil uses the town as a toy.

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The review

Jannings as the devil stopped being fun about ten minutes in. A scholar bargains his soul. A girl pays for it. Murnau, German, 1926, not an American gross. An older teen can watch. Not a family night. The bargain is the plot. I won't go into what happens to Gretchen, and you shouldn't either.

The town is a toy the devil plays with. That stayed with me more than the magic. He wants something other than a scholar's life, and a person who never signed is who pays. Say that before anyone collects Jannings as a favorite face. The spectacle is real. The deal is rotten, and the film is not confused about who gets the bill.

Journal

Keep Faust in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 29. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth 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

The Shack

39 instead of 29

The Shack is still a fantasy film, and it scores 39 instead of 29. What you gain is courage: Going back to the place of the murder is a real terror.

The eight

4
Industry
A scholar's work is what he bargains away when he sells the soul.
4
Household
A girl who never signed the bargain is the one who pays for it.
2
Piety
He bargains his soul; conscience does not stop the scholar from signing.
2
Courage
The risk is not taken for another person; a girl pays the scholar's want.
2
Republic
The town is a toy the devil plays with, not a place owed any keeping.
3
Temperance
Jannings's devil is the show, and the bargain keeps feeding that want.
4
Truth
The devil's bargain holds, and a girl who didn't sign is who pays.
2
Stewardship
A town used as a toy, and a bill left on a girl who never agreed.

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Film · De Laurentiis · 1986

Blue Velvet

29Leave it.

He finds an ear and then wants the night more than he wants an exit.

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The review

He finds an ear in a field and follows it, a college boy treating a crime as a personal door. By day the town is lawns and robins. By night there's a singer, a criminal, and a detective's daughter. I'm not describing the cruelty. The detail that decides whether you should leave it on is simpler: he wants the mystery more than he wants to leave.

Not for teenagers, and not as a style to borrow. The neat lawn isn't proof the place is sound, and his curiosity isn't a favor to the neighbors. He could stop. He doesn't want to. If your house already flatters people for poking into the dark, this will flatter them again. You can admit the film is skilled and still keep it off this week. He wants the mystery more than a way out. That is the warning.

Journal

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