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Film · United Artists · 1948

Red River

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

A father confuses the herd with love, and the ending lets him off easier than I would.

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The review

The herd and the son get confused, and that is the whole trouble. A tyrant of a rancher starts a cattle drive north with his adopted son. The drive is the work. He becomes impossible. The son takes the herd. The father follows, meaning to kill him. A woman steps between them. The film chooses a reconciliation, and I think it comes too easily.

The work is real. So is the boy he raised. I did not buy the last kindness as something he had earned on the trail. If you treat a crew, and a son, as property you are allowed to break, a woman standing in the middle is not the same as your own conscience stopping you. The father is plainly a tyrant. The picture lets him back in anyway.

Journal

Keep Red River 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

High Noon

74 instead of 61

High Noon is still a western film, and it scores 74 instead of 61. What you gain is republic: A town that will not keep its own peace.

The eight

9
Industry
A cattle drive north is the work, and the herd is the stake.
8
Household
The adopted son is the child this father mixes up with the herd.
4
Piety
He means to kill his son; a woman, not his conscience, steps in.
8
Courage
The son takes the herd knowing his father will come to kill him.
6
Republic
The drive is a company living under one rancher's private law.
4
Temperance
His hold on the drive is checked late, and some say too easily.
5
Truth
Taking the herd is honest; the quick peace softens the bill.
5
Stewardship
A herd goes on, and a fatherhood is patched more easily than earned.

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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.