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Film · UFA · 1927

Metropolis

Name: Metropolis scores 65 — Live Historic
Item: Metropolis
Rating: 65
Author: Live Historic

65Worth an evening.

A German sermon with machines, not an American gross of the year.

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The review

Don't file this with the American grosses. It isn't one. Metropolis is Lang in Germany: towers up top, a workers' city underneath, a master's son who trades places with a worker. A robot is given a woman's face and sent to wreck both sides. An older child can watch it. The robot can frighten. What the film says is that the heart has to stand between the head and the hands.

I felt the machines more than I felt a family, and that matches the picture. A sermon, with the labor underneath treated as the city's body, and a false face used to set both sides on each other. I'd show an older kid who can take a lecture inside a spectacle. I wouldn't pretend the fame is the same thing as a Hollywood crowd.

Journal

Keep Metropolis in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 65. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household is the thin one.

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.

Consider this

The Day the Earth Stood Still

76 instead of 65

The Day the Earth Stood Still is still a science fiction film, and it scores 76 instead of 65. What you gain is household: He lives with a widow and her son, and that house is a real life.

The eight

9
Industry
The workers' city underneath is the labor the towers are built on.
3
Household
A master's son and a borrowed face, not a marriage or a child being raised.
7
Piety
The film's stop is a sermon: the heart between the head and the hands.
7
Courage
The son trades places with a worker and gives up the master's height.
8
Republic
Two cities, one above the other, and someone has to answer for both.
5
Temperance
A robot is sent to wreck both sides, which feeds the split the sermon fears.
7
Truth
The robot wears a woman's face, a lie aimed at both the towers and the workers.
6
Stewardship
What it leaves is the sermon, not proof the two cities were reconciled.

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Film · Prime Video · 1995

A Little Princess

65Worth an evening.

Keep it. Imagination here is a way of telling the truth about a person's worth, not an escape from the attic.

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The review

Sara's kindness in the attic is the film's argument, and it is not cheap because the film lets her be hungry. Miss Minchin worships money and calls it standards. The other girls learn which authority is real. There is a softness to the ending that a strict reading of the book might resist, and the softness is a mercy for a child audience. The picture to keep is the one where she gives the bun away.

A young house can watch this whenever someone has started ranking the children. Rank is the villain.

Journal

Keep A Little Princess in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 65. 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.

Consider this

Field of Dreams

73 instead of 65

Field of Dreams is still a family film, and it scores 73 instead of 65. What you gain is household: The whole last inning is a son who did not know how to want his father.