Film · Prime Video · 1998
Meet Joe Black
The father learning to die without panic is the good. The romance with Death is the confusion. Adults.
Bill Parrish is a man of business and daughters, and the film's long patience is mostly for him: a birthday, a succession, a chance to say the true thing before he is collected. That patience is a gift in a culture that will not sit at a bedside. The love story between his daughter and the guest is a category mistake the movie is too fond of. Death is not a suitor. A borrowed face is not a boyfriend.
It is three hours. Give them to the father, not to the courtship. If the room swoons at the wrong pair, say so. Then talk about the birthday, which is the scene that knows what a house is.
The eight
Industry
6/10
A life's work, reviewed.
Household
7/10
A father and daughters at a real threshold.
Piety
5/10
Death as a person is an old device. Do not flirt with it.
Courage
6/10
He faces the end.
Republic
5/10
A company that will outlast him, and should.
Temperance
5/10
Slow, and indulgent in the romance.
Truth
6/10
The limited time is true.
Stewardship
6/10
It can hand on a birthday said properly.
Live historicallyPut one affair in order as if you did not have forever, because you do not.
