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Film · Universal · 1975

Jaws

Jaws

70Worth an evening.

The poster sold fear, but the story is a town that will not tell itself the truth.

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The review

People remember the teeth. The poster sold the teeth. Under that, a great white is killing swimmers off a summer town, and the mayor keeps the beaches open because the town needs the season. The story is a place that will not tell itself the truth. Every extra day is a choice.

The sheriff is afraid of the water. He still goes, with a scientist and a fisherman, in a boat that is too small. Younger kids do not belong in the room. Anyone old enough can take the scare and then talk about the man who wanted the season more than the warning. The fear works. The lie is what lasts.

Journal

Keep Jaws in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 70. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household is the thin one.

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

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The Night of the Hunter

79 instead of 70

The Night of the Hunter is still a thriller film, and it scores 79 instead of 70. What you gain is household: A widow's children are hunted until an old woman's house becomes the shelter.

The eight

  1. 8
    Industry

    The sheriff, the scientist, and the fisherman take the work the mayor will not do.

  2. 5
    Household

    The mayor risks other people's children so the summer town can keep its season.

  3. 6
    Piety

    The mayor's conscience will not close the beach; more deaths have to.

  4. 9
    Courage

    A sheriff who is afraid of the water gets into a boat that is too small.

  5. 8
    Republic

    The mayor owes the swimmers more than he owes the summer's receipts.

  6. 5
    Temperance

    The poster sells the scare, and the story makes you sit through the delay.

  7. 9
    Truth

    An open beach is a lie the town tells, and more swimmers pay for it.

  8. 6
    Stewardship

    Three men go out so the town might still have a shore after the season.

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Before the next holiday weekend, ask which beach your town would keep open for the money.

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Film · Fox Searchlight · 2013

12 Years a Slave

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.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 70. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Temperance are the thin ones.

  1. 7Industry
  2. 8Household
  3. 4Piety
  4. 8Courage
  5. 7Republic
  6. 4Temperance
  7. 10Truth
  8. 8Stewardship

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

Cabrini

83 instead of 70

Cabrini is still a drama film, and it scores 83 instead of 70. What you gain is piety: The vow is the engine, and it is not a costume.

The eight

  1. 7
    Industry

    Field work, a fiddle, a carpenter's hands. Labor is stolen, and the film does not turn it into a montage of dignity-for-us.

  2. 8
    Household

    A wife and children he is trying to get back to. Other families are broken in front of him. The house is the thing slavery is designed to unmake.

  3. 4
    Piety

    Hymns, and a faith some of the enslaved hold that the masters also claim. The film does not let the claim cancel the chain.

  4. 8
    Courage

    He endures, and he finally speaks his own name and his proof. Survival here is not passivity.

  5. 7
    Republic

    The law is on the side of the kidnappers. A so-called Christian economy is the public.

  6. 4
    Temperance

    The cruelty is shown because it was the fact. It is not a thrill. It is still almost unbearable, and that is a reason to choose the room.

  7. 10
    Truth

    His freedom papers are the truth the country would not look at. The film looks.

  8. 8
    Stewardship

    What he is trying to return to is a family. The film does not pretend the years can be given back.

Live historically

Read one page of a true account of a legal wrong, and tell someone in the house what the law permitted.

Where to watch

Finding the page.

Live Historic · 12 Years a Slave · 70IMDb tt2024544

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Keep going

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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