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Film · Warner Bros. · 1945

Mildred Pierce

Name: Mildred Pierce scores 51 — Live Historic
Item: Mildred Pierce
Rating: 51
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51Watch it awake.

She built the restaurant for the girl, and the girl still treats the work like dirt.

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The review

I kept waiting for the daughter to be grateful, which tells you the picture knows that wait. A woman builds a restaurant so her girl can have a life, and the girl despises the work and the mother who did it. Joan Crawford. A murder frame opens the story. I won't describe the killing. This is for adults, late, not a family night.

The work is hers, and it matters. The daughter is a life, not a prop, which is why the contempt lands harder than a simple villain would. Love keeps paying a want that will not fill. I wouldn't put this on to coach ambition. I'd put it on if you need to see a paycheck treated as shame by the person it was built for.

Journal

Keep Mildred Pierce in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 51. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Republic and Temperance 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

Spartacus

63 instead of 51

Spartacus is still a drama film, and it scores 63 instead of 51. What you gain is republic: When the survivors will not point to him, the private man becomes a people for a minute.

The eight

9
Industry
She builds the restaurant herself, and that business is the spine of the story.
8
Household
Mother and daughter are the life here, and the girl is not a lesson in a dress.
3
Piety
Nothing stops the mother from paying, and nothing stops the daughter's contempt.
6
Courage
She risks the business and her name on a daughter who will not thank her.
2
Republic
A private house and a restaurant, and no town she is asked to answer for.
3
Temperance
The daughter's want drives it, and that want is never put down.
7
Truth
A murder frame means a story is false, and the false story comes due.
3
Stewardship
What stands is a business the daughter has already decided is beneath her.

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Film · Universal · 1916

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

51Watch it awake.

A child can watch the submarine; the bolted-on war talk is 1916, not the sea.

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Captain Nemo and a submarine, and the underwater scenes were really shot underwater. That is the part I would show a child. The sea is the pleasure. This 1916 Universal picture was the year's leader on the lists still cited. It is not a later version, so don't talk over it with a newer one.

A wartime frame was added, with Nemo against a warmongering power. The added war is 1916 talking. A child can watch the boat and the water. I'd say, before that frame takes over, that the war talk was put on for the year. The dive is the part worth keeping.

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