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Film · Metro · 1925

Go West

Go West

56Watch it awake.

He will not let the cattle business turn his only friend into stock.

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The review

Brown Eyes is a cow, and she is the only one who stays. A friendless man goes west. Buster Keaton. The cattle business wants her as stock. He will not agree. Not a giant gross, which is why I nearly picked a parade picture instead, and I am glad I didn't. The joke is tenderness. A house can watch it. Our bunch laughed harder at the loyalty than I expected.

Tenderness is a strange engine, and it holds. He has no one, so the cow is not a bit he can drop when the money speaks. I sat there thinking of every living thing I have priced without looking. The picture does not let the business have her. It leaves him the man who will not agree. That was enough on a weeknight.

Journal

Keep Go West in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 56. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Republic are the thin ones.

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

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 Great Dictator

69 instead of 56

The Great Dictator is still a comedy film, and it scores 69 instead of 56. What you gain is republic: A Jewish barber is the neighbor a dictator is willing to treat as a joke.

The eight

  1. 7
    Industry

    Cattle work is real, and he will not treat Brown Eyes as stock.

  2. 2
    Household

    No marriage, parent, or child; the loyal one is a cow.

  3. 7
    Piety

    He stops the sale because Brown Eyes is not stock to him.

  4. 6
    Courage

    Refusing the sale risks the only loyalty a friendless man has.

  5. 3
    Republic

    No town is owed; a man stands against a cattle business.

  6. 7
    Temperance

    The business wants the cow sold, and he will not take the money.

  7. 7
    Truth

    The tenderness is the joke, and he will not break the loyalty.

  8. 6
    Stewardship

    What he keeps is a living cow, not a ledger of stock.

Live historically

Stand with one animal you feed and say, in front of the family, she is not for sale.

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Film · Orion · 1984

Amadeus

Amadeus

56Watch it awake.

The music is a gift, and the man narrating it is not on your side.

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The review

Salieri is the one talking. He knows he is good, he knows the other man is better, and he calls that God's injustice. The film is not a note-by-note life of Mozart. A father, a wife, money, and a body are in it. The music is the evidence. The confession is the frame. I enjoyed the music and did not enjoy the man handing it to me.

Save it for a night when envy is worth talking about afterward. Nobody in the room should be asked to admire the narrator. He tells a truth about a gift he cannot match, then spends the truth on a grievance. The music does not need his permission, and the warning is how a gifted man talks once he has decided heaven owes him an apology.

Journal

Keep Amadeus in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 56. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Republic and Temperance are the thin ones.

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

Footloose

70 instead of 56

Footloose is still a drama film, and it scores 70 instead of 56. What you gain is piety: By the end the preacher is not a cartoon.

The eight

  1. 9
    Industry

    Composing is the real work, and the music is the evidence on the table.

  2. 6
    Household

    A father, a wife, money, and a body keep Mozart's life from being only genius.

  3. 4
    Piety

    Salieri calls the gap God's injustice and does not let that stop his envy.

  4. 5
    Courage

    The body and the money are at risk, while Salieri mostly risks his own peace.

  5. 4
    Republic

    A court may employ them, but nobody here is answering to a town.

  6. 3
    Temperance

    Envy is fed by every comparison, and the confession does not starve it.

  7. 7
    Truth

    He tells the truth that the other man is better, then misnames what God owes him.

  8. 7
    Stewardship

    The music outlasts the grievance, which is what the people still have.

Live historically

Play one piece by somebody plainly better than you, and say whether you can stand the gap without blaming heaven.

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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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