Film · Universal · 1946
Great Expectations
54Watch it awake.
He becomes a gentleman on an unknown hand, and that hand is not the one he assumed.
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The review
Lean's Dickens traveled as an art-house hit, not as one of the year's crowds. A boy helps a convict on the marshes. A mad woman in a decaying house raises a girl not to love. Money arrives from an unknown hand, and the boy becomes a gentleman. A house can watch it. I would tell a child that the new manners are not a life he earned.
The source of the money is not what he assumed. I won't add a twist past that. What stayed with me is the girl raised not to love, inside a house that is already decaying. He uses the gift to become a gentleman. Say the real source out loud before anyone treats the manners as the prize.
Journal
Keep Great Expectations in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 54. Yours can differ.
The glance
Industry and Piety and Temperance 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
Giant
66 instead of 54
Giant is still a drama film, and it scores 66 instead of 54. What you gain is industry: Ranch work is the life, until oil changes what the land is for.
The eight
- 4Industry
Gentleman is a costume the money buys him, not a job he is doing.
- 7Household
A woman raises a girl not to love, and that girl is the life of the house.
- 4Piety
Nothing in the decaying house stops the woman from training the girl.
- 7Courage
A boy on the marshes helps a convict when the safe thing is to run.
- 5Republic
He owes the unknown hand more than the grand house he pictured.
- 4Temperance
The want is to be a gentleman, and he wears it before the correction.
- 8Truth
He assumes the wrong giver, and that mistake is the bill that arrives.
- 4Stewardship
He is left a decaying house and money he did not earn himself.
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