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Film · United Artists · 1980

Raging Bull

Raging Bull

44Leave it.

The boxing is the job, and the house is what he spends.

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The review

Start at the end if you want to know what the film thinks of him. A heavier man sits alone in a dressing room, rehearsing a speech, and the fights that got him there are not offered as glory. Jake LaMotta's job is boxing. The bill is the house. Jealousy costs him his brother and his wife, and the black-and-white picture will not let the ring wash that off.

It is adult, and it is not a sports movie you put on for a pumped-up night. I recognized the boxer and still felt the film arguing with anyone who wants the wins without the room he ends in. Nobody stops him. Conscience does not walk in and save the marriage. You leave with a man who spent the people he had, which is the honest ending, and a bad reason to imitate him.

Journal

Keep Raging Bull in the record.

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Live Historic number 44. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

  1. 8Industry
  2. 7Household
  3. 2Piety
  4. 4Courage
  5. 2Republic
  6. 3Temperance
  7. 7Truth
  8. 2Stewardship

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

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Rocky III

59 instead of 44

Rocky III is still a drama film, and it scores 59 instead of 44. What you gain is stewardship: The old opponent passes on the work, a better gift than the lifestyle.

The eight

  1. 8
    Industry

    Boxing is his job, and the film treats the ring as work rather than glory.

  2. 7
    Household

    Jealousy costs him his brother and his wife, and the house is the bill.

  3. 2
    Piety

    No conscience arrives in time to stop the jealousy or save the marriage.

  4. 4
    Courage

    He risks his body in fights that the film refuses to call glory.

  5. 2
    Republic

    The story never widens to a town, a law, or a neighbor he owes.

  6. 3
    Temperance

    Jealousy is never put down, and the last man is heavier and alone.

  7. 7
    Truth

    The lie jealousy tells is paid for with a brother, a wife, and an empty room.

  8. 2
    Stewardship

    What remains is a heavier man alone, rehearsing a speech in a dressing room.

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Tell someone what the jealousy took from his brother and his wife before you mention a single fight.

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Film · Prime Video · 1951

Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland

44Leave it.

Nonsense is funny until it is a government. She comes back. Good.

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The review

Wonderland is a place where authority is a temper: a queen who executes, a tea party that never ends, a caterpillar who sneers. Alice is polite and then she is done. The film's best moment is her refusal to take the queen's court as a real court. Curiosity brought her in. Judgment takes her out.

A child can enjoy the jokes. Say that the jokes are not a model of how a house or a school should run. A world that changes the rules to watch you stumble is not a wonder. It is a bully with a teapot.

Journal

Keep Alice in Wonderland in the record.

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The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Republic are the thin ones.

  1. 2Industry
  2. 4Household
  3. 2Piety
  4. 6Courage
  5. 4Republic
  6. 5Temperance
  7. 7Truth
  8. 5Stewardship

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

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Peter Pan

56 instead of 44

Peter Pan is still a animation film, and it scores 56 instead of 44. What you gain is household: The ending is a return to parents, and her own future as a mother.

The eight

  1. 2
    Industry

    No work. A dream.

  2. 4
    Household

    She wants to get back to her sister and the bank.

  3. 2
    Piety

    None. Manners without substance.

  4. 6
    Courage

    She tells the queen the court is absurd.

  5. 4
    Republic

    A tyranny of cards. She will not play it as real.

  6. 5
    Temperance

    Curiosity without a limit is how she gets lost.

  7. 7
    Truth

    The rules are fake. She says so.

  8. 5
    Stewardship

    The good ending is the grass she started from.

Live historically

When a room makes no sense and calls that clever, leave.

Where to watch

Finding the page.

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The next title is the one nearest what this house keeps, then the measure where it is thin. Nothing here is a crowd. It does not leave this device.

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