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Film · Paramount · 1973

Serpico

Name: Serpico scores 74 — Live Historic
Item: Serpico
Rating: 74
Author: Live Historic

74Worth an evening.

He will not take the money, and the job makes him pay for that refusal.

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The review

Frank Serpico will not take the pad of bribes. He grows his hair and his beard, and he will not pretend a New York police job is clean. The department isolates him. He is shot. Based on the real officer. None of that is a slogan about standing out. It is a man who kept a duty and lost the room.

If you want a cop story, this is the one where he keeps the duty and loses the room. Serpico holds the obligation and pays in isolation and a bullet. He is cut off because he would not join the lie. Say that afterward, and remember the officer was real.

Journal

Keep Serpico in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 74. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household is the thin one.

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

To Kill a Mockingbird

81 instead of 74

To Kill a Mockingbird is still a crime film, and it scores 81 instead of 74. What you gain is household: A father raising children in public.

The eight

8
Industry
Police work is the life here, and whether that job is clean is the question.
3
Household
The life at stake is the job, not a marriage or a child he is raising.
8
Piety
Conscience stops him. He will not take the money the pad expects.
9
Courage
He risks the workplace and is shot, and the man he is based on was real.
8
Republic
A city is owed cops who refuse bribes, and he pays for acting as if that is true.
8
Temperance
Easy money is what the precinct wants, and he puts that want down.
9
Truth
He will not pretend the job is clean, and the pad's lie is given a bill.
6
Stewardship
He is left shot and isolated; the city is left with the fact of the refusal.

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Arrival

74Worth an evening.

Understanding is the work. She says yes to a child she will lose. That yes is the film.

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The review

Louise's profession is the unfashionable one: sit with a sentence until it means what the speaker meant, not what you feared. The generals want a weapon. The film thinks a grammar is more dangerous and more useful than a weapon, because a grammar changes what you are able to choose. When she sees the whole of her life with her daughter, including the end, she does not flinch into a safer timeline.

Adults, and teenagers who can be quiet. This is one of the few popular films of the decade that treats knowledge as a moral act. Watch it when the house is tempted to answer before it has understood.