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Film · Pathé · 1925

The Freshman

The Freshman

43Leave it.

College here is not study, and the wish to be liked is a wound they play for laughs.

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The review

A boy goes to college determined to be popular and is used as the joke until the game. Harold Lloyd again, 1925, a solid hit in the year of The Big Parade. That comparison tells you the size. It does not tell you to treat the campus as a good place. A house can watch it. I was weary of the laughing before they ever reached the game.

The want to be liked is the wound. The school is not a place of study. Nobody becomes anyone by sitting a class. If a kid in this house already reads every room for who is in and who is out, this will feel familiar, and that is not a compliment to the college. Watch the game if you want. Name it as the only door they left him, not as proof that being liked was worth the chase.

Journal

Keep The Freshman in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 43. Yours can differ.

The glance

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

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

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

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Consider this

You Can't Take It with You

56 instead of 43

You Can't Take It with You is still a comedy film, and it scores 56 instead of 43. What you gain is household: A grandfather, a granddaughter, and a full house are the life on screen.

The eight

  1. 3
    Industry

    The school is not a place of study, so the game is the only work on offer.

  2. 3
    Household

    A boy at college, and no parent, marriage, or child is a life in the plot.

  3. 4
    Piety

    The campus uses him as the joke, and nothing stops that before the game.

  4. 6
    Courage

    He stays the joke and still shows up for the game, the risk he can take.

  5. 4
    Republic

    A college that uses a boy as the joke has not behaved as if it owes him.

  6. 5
    Temperance

    The want to be liked is the wound, and popularity is still why he came.

  7. 6
    Truth

    He is used as the joke, so the welcome the campus gives him is not true.

  8. 3
    Stewardship

    The college leaves him a game and a wound about being liked, not study.

Live historically

Before the game, have your kid point out who is using the freshman and who is a friend.

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Film · Paramount · 2016

13 Hours

13 Hours

43Leave it.

A night, a compound, a political argument wearing a battle. Adults. Do not let the argument be settled by the gunfire.

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The review

On September 11, 2012, the American compound in Benghazi was attacked and four Americans were killed, including the ambassador. The contractors at a nearby CIA annex fought through the night. That much a house should know. Michael Bay's film knows how to film a roof. It does not know how to handle a disputed record, and it does not try. Everyone who hesitates is a villain. Everyone who shoots is a truth-teller.

Adults, and even then I would rather they read two accounts than watch one bay of muzzle flash. If you do watch it, separate the bravery of the men on the annex from the brief the film is writing. Bravery is not a party. A dead ambassador is not a talking point. The film wants both of those sentences to be false. They are not.

Journal

Keep 13 Hours in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 43. Yours can differ.

The glance

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

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

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

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The Covenant

63 instead of 43

The Covenant is still a war film, and it scores 63 instead of 43. What you gain is household: A wife and a child are why the interpreter cannot simply be brave in the abstract.

The eight

  1. 6
    Industry

    Security work is a job. The film is good at the geography of a compound and bad at everything political.

  2. 3
    Household

    Wives on a laptop. Home is a screen in a safe room.

  3. 2
    Piety

    No reverence. The team is the faith.

  4. 7
    Courage

    Staying on the roof is courage. The film is right about the length of the night.

  5. 4
    Republic

    A real failure of protection. The film turns the failure into a brief for one faction.

  6. 3
    Temperance

    Michael Bay films the tracer fire as beauty. That is the wrong eye.

  7. 5
    Truth

    The night happened. The meaning of the night is more contested than the movie can admit.

  8. 4
    Stewardship

    What it leaves is heat. Heat is not a finding.

Live historically

Read one account of that night that was not made by the filmmaker, and note where they differ.

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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