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Film · Daiei · 1950

Rashomon

Name: Rashomon scores 61 — Live Historic
Item: Rashomon
Rating: 61
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61Watch it awake.

The stories don't match, and somebody still has to pick that baby up.

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The review

Four accounts of one crime in a grove, told in the rain, and none of them hold. The bandit, the woman, the dead man, and a woodcutter each tell it differently. I was ready to shrug and treat the mess as unknowable.

There's an abandoned baby, and someone has to pick the child up. That's the part I won't let this house talk past. I wouldn't put the crime on for a small child. For the rest of us it leaves a duty after the arguing. Put it on when we've got several versions of one event and a kid standing in the middle.

Journal

Keep Rashomon in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 61. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry is the thin one.

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

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

A Raisin in the Sun

73 instead of 61

A Raisin in the Sun is still a drama film, and it scores 73 instead of 61. What you gain is industry: The mother cleans other people's houses.

The eight

3
Industry
A woodcutter is among the tellers; nobody's trade is what the night is for.
7
Household
An abandoned baby waits in the rain, and someone has to take the child.
6
Piety
None of the accounts is conscience, but a person still has to take the child.
6
Courage
Taking the abandoned baby is the risk, and then that life has to be kept.
5
Republic
The accounts fail a crime, and the living still owe the baby a person.
6
Temperance
The crime is told four ways, and the ending is a duty rather than a craving.
8
Truth
Nobody's account holds, and a baby on the ground is the fact that stays.
8
Stewardship
What's left is a child, and one person willing to carry that life out.

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Film · Warner Bros. · 2005

Batman Begins

61Watch it awake.

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

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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.