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Film · Warner Bros. · 1941

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Sergeant York

48Watch it awake.

His conscience starts as a refusal to kill, and the film cashes it in as fame.

The review

A Tennessee farmer will not kill. The army takes him anyway. In the Argonne he captures a great many men, and the film treats that as the faithful outcome. Gary Cooper, playing a living man. People called it the largest American gross of its year. I'm not describing wounds. The piety is the start. The fame is the killing.

I wouldn't hand this to a child as the story of a good no. He does risk himself, and the captures are the record the country wanted. The movie then lets that record answer the refusal. If you watch it, keep those two facts apart. Older teens can hear the difference. Adults should not clap just because the gross was huge.

Journal

Keep Sergeant York in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 48. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

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

Consider this

The Bridge on the River Kwai

64 instead of 48

The Bridge on the River Kwai is still a war film, and it scores 64 instead of 48. What you gain is truth: A well-built bridge can be a betrayal.

The eight

6
Industry
He starts as a Tennessee farmer; the work the film honors is the Argonne.
3
Household
The life here is the farm and the army, not a marriage or a child.
6
Piety
He will not kill, and the film then calls the captures the faithful end.
7
Courage
After refusing, he still risks himself in the Argonne when the army takes him.
5
Republic
The country drafts a man who will not kill and spends him on a famous action.
3
Temperance
The crowd is steered toward the Argonne hero, not the man who first refused.
4
Truth
A living man's refusal is real, then billed as if the captures fulfilled it.
4
Stewardship
What the country is left with is fame for the killing, not the refusal.

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Film · Illumination · 2013

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Despicable Me 2

48Watch it awake.

The girls are the point. The spy plot is the sale. A family can sit with it and talk.

The review

Gru did not become good in the abstract. He became a father, and the second film is mostly about whether he will protect that fact or miss the glamour of being feared. The spy story is disposable. The kitchen is not.

A child can watch this. Say, after, that the funny yellow helpers are the advertisement, and the adoption is the story. If they only quote the minions, watch something quieter next.

Journal

Keep Despicable Me 2 in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 48. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Piety and Republic are the thin ones.

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

The Lego Movie

59 instead of 48

The Lego Movie is still a animation film, and it scores 59 instead of 48. What you gain is republic: A city of locked pieces, which is a bad republic, and they unstick it.