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Film · Paramount · 1925

Grass

Name: Grass scores 70 — Live Historic
Item: Grass
Rating: 70
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70Worth an evening.

The herds and the crossing are real; the camera belongs to outsiders.

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The review

They cross a river and a mountain range with the herds, and the grass on the far side is the reason. Cooper and Schoedsack film the journey. A hit of its kind. A house can watch it. The crossing is real. I was glad of the grass and wary of two Americans collecting the feat as if the feat were theirs.

The Bakhtiari are not scenery. The work is the animals, the water, the range. Say the frame is still outsiders, because it is. I can respect the crossing without giving the camera the credit for having survived it. What that people reached was grass. What the picture reached was a crowd. Those arrivals are not the same.

Journal

Keep Grass in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 70. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety is the thin one.

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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Won't You Be My Neighbor?

86 instead of 70

Won't You Be My Neighbor? is still a documentary film, and it scores 86 instead of 70. What you gain is piety: The theology is in the method: a child is a neighbor, not a market.

The eight

9
Industry
A people move their herds across a river and a mountain range.
6
Household
The life here is a whole people traveling with the animals they keep.
4
Piety
The drive toward grass is necessity, not a conscience stopping anyone.
9
Courage
They risk the river and the range to reach grass for the herds.
7
Republic
A people move together while Americans collect the journey on film.
6
Temperance
They cross for grass to feed the herds, not to feed a crowd.
7
Truth
The crossing is real, and the frame is still outsiders collecting it.
8
Stewardship
What they are keeping, and what they cross for, is grass for the herds.

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Film · Fox Searchlight · 2013

12 Years a Slave

70Worth an evening.

Keep it for adults who can bear it. A free man, a paper, a wife and children, and a country that called the theft law.

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The review

Solomon Northup was a citizen of New York with a wife, children, and a trade, and the United States allowed him to be sold. The film's discipline is to stay with the time. It does not offer a white savior as the meaning, though a man finally carries a letter. The meaning is the letter, the name, and the fact that the law had to be contradicted by a person willing to act. Patsey's suffering is not there for our refinement. It is there because leaving her out would be another theft.

Adults. Do not put it on as a background of importance. If you watch it, watch it through, and do not follow it with a cheerful picture the same night. The charge is not a feeling. The charge is to know that a legal theft is still a theft, and to be the person who carries the letter.

Journal

Keep 12 Years a Slave in the record.