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Film · Affirm · 2008

Fireproof

Fireproof

69Worth an evening.

A marriage saved by obedience before the feelings return. Simple, and the simplicity is the medicine.

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The review

People laugh at the love dare, and some of the lines are stiff. Look at what it is willing to say. A husband is cold. A wife is done. The repair does not begin with a feeling. It begins with a series of acts he does not want to do, including telling the truth about what he has been looking at. That last part puts it ahead of almost every romance on a shelf.

Married adults. Do not watch it to feel warm about marriage. Watch it if you are in the cold part, and then do one day of the thing without announcing that you are doing a program. The charge is embarrassingly specific because vague charges are how marriages actually end.

Journal

Keep Fireproof in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 69. Yours can differ.

The glance

Republic is the thin one.

  1. 7Industry
  2. 9Household
  3. 8Piety
  4. 7Courage
  5. 4Republic
  6. 6Temperance
  7. 6Truth
  8. 8Stewardship

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.

Consider this

Little Women

75 instead of 69

Little Women is still a drama film, and it scores 75 instead of 69. What you gain is temperance: Anger named and governed.

The eight

  1. 7
    Industry

    Firefighting is a real craft. The harder assignment is the house.

  2. 9
    Household

    The vow is the subject. They are not dating. They are married, and the married part is the crisis.

  3. 8
    Piety

    The challenge is a discipline of service, tied to a faith he does not start with.

  4. 7
    Courage

    Doing good to someone you are furious with, for forty days, is a kind of courage.

  5. 4
    Republic

    A station and a house. The public is small.

  6. 6
    Temperance

    Pornography is named as a thief in the marriage, which most films will not do.

  7. 6
    Truth

    The steps are almost a program. The direction is still the truth: love is a practice.

  8. 8
    Stewardship

    What he is keeping is a wife, not an exit story he can tell his friends.

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Do one costly, unannounced kindness for your husband or your wife today.

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Film · Italy · 1916

Cenere

Cenere

69Worth an evening.

A mother sees the son she gave up and leaves, so she will not ruin his life.

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The review

She gave him up, and then she sees him again. A mother, a son, and a choice not to ruin the life he has. Eleanora Duse's only film. Italian, 1916, not an American gross. The face is why the picture was made. A house can watch it. I watched it hoping I would leave a hard meeting that cleanly, and I am not sure I would.

The leaving is the mercy. She does not spend his life to ease the meeting. That is a household doing a hard thing, not a famous face collecting a bow. The camera came for the face. I would keep the mercy. If the kids are up, the line is short: she meets him, and she will not break what he already has.

Journal

Keep Cenere in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 69. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Republic are the thin ones.

  1. 4Industry
  2. 9Household
  3. 8Piety
  4. 8Courage
  5. 3Republic
  6. 8Temperance
  7. 7Truth
  8. 8Stewardship

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

Enoch Arden

79 instead of 69

Enoch Arden is still a drama film, and it scores 79 instead of 69. What you gain is industry: He is a sailor, and that wrecked work is why the years pass.

The eight

  1. 4
    Industry

    Duse's face is why the picture was made, and it is her only film.

  2. 9
    Household

    A mother who gave her son up meets him and will not ruin his life.

  3. 8
    Piety

    The leaving is the mercy: she will not ruin the life he has.

  4. 8
    Courage

    She meets the son she gave up and leaves rather than break his life.

  5. 3
    Republic

    Her duty is to one son's life, not to a town or a law.

  6. 8
    Temperance

    She leaves instead of staying to spend the life her son has.

  7. 7
    Truth

    She meets him again and will not ruin the life he already has.

  8. 8
    Stewardship

    She leaves him the life he already has, and that leaving is the mercy.

Live historically

After Cenere, ask why Duse's mother leaves the son she gave up instead of staying to ease herself.

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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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