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Film · Warner Bros. · 1999

The Matrix

The Matrix

55Watch it awake.

The choice of the true world is the film. The lobby fight is what people copied. Adults.

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The review

A man sits in an office under fluorescent lights and is told the lights are the lie. The steak scene is the honest temptation: the false world tastes better, and a person might choose it knowing it is false. The film says that choice is a betrayal. That sentence is worth an adult evening in any decade.

What the decade copied was the coat and the lobby. Do not confuse the coat with the sentence. Not for a child who will practice the guns. If you watch it, talk about the two doors, and about the man who wanted the steak back.

Journal

Keep The Matrix in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 55. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Temperance are the thin ones.

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

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

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

68 instead of 55

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is still a science-fiction film, and it scores 68 instead of 55. What you gain is stewardship: They hand the future to people who will never know their names.

The eight

  1. 6
    Industry

    There is a skill to learn and a training that hurts. The work is not optional.

  2. 4
    Household

    A crew is a thin household. A traitor wants the lie back because it had a steak.

  3. 5
    Piety

    The lie is a system. Waking is treated as a moral duty, not a style.

  4. 8
    Courage

    He takes the door that does not promise comfort.

  5. 5
    Republic

    A hidden city of the free, and a machine city that uses people as batteries.

  6. 3
    Temperance

    The violence became a fashion. The film enjoys the fashion.

  7. 8
    Truth

    The offer is clear: a hard truth or a pleasant falsehood. He is not allowed both.

  8. 5
    Stewardship

    What he is asked to join is a resistance, not a lifestyle.

Live historically

Name one comfortable falsehood this house has preferred to a plainer fact.

Where to watch

Finding the page.

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Film · New Line · 1984

A Nightmare on Elm Street

A Nightmare on Elm Street

55Watch it awake.

The first one is a parents' secret and a girl who will not sleep. The sequels sold the joke.

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The review

People know the glove and the joke. That came later. This one is a dead killer in dreams, a street of parents who share a secret about how he died, and a girl who has to stay awake. The sequels turned him into a punchline. The first film is still the adults' lie.

Not for children. If a teenager is going to meet it anyway, put the secret in front of the monster. Sleep is the ordinary thing she would like to have, and she gives it up because the block will not say what it did. I would rather a house remember a girl who will not lie down on that pact than remember a quip. Leave the later ones off.

Journal

Keep A Nightmare on Elm Street in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 55. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

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

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

Alien

66 instead of 55

Alien is still a horror film, and it scores 66 instead of 55. What you gain is industry: A towing crew with ranks and a quarantine rule, and the job is the plot.

The eight

  1. 2
    Industry

    Staying awake is survival here, not a job anyone is paid to do.

  2. 7
    Household

    Parents share a secret, and their children are the ones who pay.

  3. 6
    Piety

    The adults buried how he died, and a girl refuses to sleep through it.

  4. 8
    Courage

    She gives up sleep, the thing a person would miss by morning.

  5. 7
    Republic

    A whole street of parents owes the truth and keeps a pact instead.

  6. 3
    Temperance

    Later films turned him into a joke people wanted to see again.

  7. 8
    Truth

    The parents' secret is the bill that arrives in the children's dreams.

  8. 3
    Stewardship

    What the sequels passed along was a killer people learned to laugh at.

Live historically

Tell a teenager the first film is a street of parents with a secret, then leave the joke sequels off.

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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