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Film · Germany · 1931

M

Name: M scores 48 — Live Historic
Item: M
Rating: 48
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48Watch it awake.

Do not put this on for a child, and do not retell the murders.

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The review

Keep every child out of the room. A city cannot catch a man who murders children. The underworld hunts him because the police are bad for business. Peter Lorre. There is a whistle. I won't say what he does to the children. Lang made it in Germany. Not a Hollywood gross. Adult, and not for a child to watch.

The film is about the failure, not about the crimes as a show. I wanted a clever chase and it will not be that. If someone asks for the details, the answer is no. A whistle is not a reason to retell the murders. The police could not catch him. The underworld went after him because the police were bad for business. That is as much as this house needs.

Journal

Keep M in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 48. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Courage and Stewardship are the thin ones.

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

Notorious

59 instead of 48

Notorious is still a thriller film, and it scores 59 instead of 48. What you gain is courage: She agrees to marry a Nazi in Rio, risking the safety she still has.

The eight

5
Industry
Police work fails, and that failure is bad for business.
5
Household
Children are the lives a city fails, not a show to watch.
3
Piety
The underworld hunts him because the police hurt business.
3
Courage
The hunt starts as a business problem, not a brave errand.
8
Republic
A city cannot catch him, so the underworld takes up the hunt.
5
Temperance
It will not make the crimes a show you are meant to want.
7
Truth
What it tells is the failure, not the crimes as a show.
2
Stewardship
You leave a city that could not keep its own children.

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Film · Warner Bros. · 1954

A Star Is Born

48Watch it awake.

She rises, he drinks, the marriage cannot pay it, and the sea is not a love scene.

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The review

She starts as a band singer. A star who is already drinking his career away hears her. She rises. He falls. They marry. The songs are the work, and if you treat the numbers as the whole film you will miss the point. The alcohol is the bill. The marriage cannot pay it. He walks into the sea. Adult.

I have seen a gift and a bottle in the same house, and this one does not pretend the gift wins. That is why I will not call it a love story and stop. The walk into the sea is not a finish you admire. It is the drink finished with him. She is left with the career. Not for children. Do not clap through the numbers as if the sea were just the next cue.

Journal

Keep A Star Is Born in the record.