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Film · CJ Entertainment · 2019

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Parasite

61Watch it awake.

A lie gets a family through the door. The bill is a man with a name, in the basement. Worth an evening, then talk.

The review

The Kims are clever and they are a family, which is why the fraud feels for a while like a caper you are allowed to enjoy. Then the man in the basement is not a twist. He is the person the plan required there to be no room for. A house that smells poverty on a driver and calls it weather is telling the truth about itself, and so is a flood that ruins one street and not the lawn above it.

Watch it with adults. Do not turn it into a style. The question to leave on the table: what your comfort needs someone else to stay underground in order to continue. If you cannot name it, you are the lawn.

Journal

Keep Parasite in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 61. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Temperance 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

Witness

68 instead of 61

Witness is still a drama film, and it scores 68 instead of 61. What you gain is piety: Their nonresistance is practiced, not explained into nothing.

The eight

8
Industry
Work is the subject: tutoring, driving, the smell of a job that will not wash off.
7
Household
Two families, both real. The poor one loves each other. The love does not excuse the plan.
3
Piety
No prayer. The rich boy's birthday is the only ritual, and it curdles.
6
Courage
The son goes back into the water. Courage, late, and it does not undo the fraud.
8
Republic
A house with a hill, a flood in the low street, a class that does not have to smell the other.
4
Temperance
The violence, when it comes, is not a dance. It is still a picture people quote for pleasure.
8
Truth
Every kindness in the rich house is also a suspicion. The film does not flatter either family.
5
Stewardship
The fantasy of buying the house is the last lie. The film lets you want it, then shows you the want.

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Film · Warner Bros. · 2005

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Batman Begins

61Watch it awake.

Fear, a city, a training. The serious costume film, before the carnival. Worth an evening.

The review

Before the later films made a villain the attraction, this one was about a rich boy who is afraid and a city whose institutions have been bought. The teacher in the mountains offers a clean justice that would kill the city to save it. The refusal of that teacher is the moral event. A butler and a cop are the ordinary courage beside the costume.

Adults and older teens. It is a better evening than the spectacle that came after it in the genre. Ask what kind of fear is a tool and what kind is a teacher you should leave on the mountain.

Journal

Keep Batman Begins in the record.