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Film · Oscilloscope · 2009

The Messenger

Name: The Messenger scores 69 — Live Historic
Item: The Messenger
Rating: 69
Author: Live Historic

69Worth an evening.

The job of saying it. Worth an evening. The notification is the war, brought to the door.

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The review

Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery is back from Iraq with an eye that does not work and a love that was never his to keep. His new duty is casualty notification with Captain Tony Stone, who has rules: no touching, no accepting a glass of water, say the words and get out. The film is the doors. A father. A pregnant woman. A mother who already knows from the way they stand.

Adults, and a mature teen who can sit still. The mistake would be to watch it as a romance between the sergeant and a widow. The film is tempted by that. Keep your eye on the rule he was given and on why a rule exists when grief wants a body to hold. Ask, afterward, who in your town would be the one to drive to that door.

Journal

Keep The Messenger in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 69. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety is the thin one.

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.

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Taking Chance

81 instead of 69

Taking Chance is still a war film, and it scores 81 instead of 69. What you gain is temperance: No appetite.

The eight

8
Industry
Notification is a craft with rules, and the older man is serious about the craft.
7
Household
Every door is a household that was whole an hour earlier.
5
Piety
The ritual is the reverence. A chaplain is sometimes there. The soldiers are the ones who stay for the sentence.
8
Courage
Walking up to a door you will ruin takes more nerve than a set piece.
6
Republic
The Army is the institution. The film's interest is the private wreckage the institution has to announce.
6
Temperance
He drinks. The film does not call the drinking a personality.
8
Truth
The reactions are not written to be noble. Some families are angry at the uniform in the yard.
7
Stewardship
What it hands you is the sentence a family will hear once and never forget.

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Film · Italy · 1916

Cenere

69Worth an evening.

A mother sees the son she gave up and leaves, so she will not ruin his life.

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The review

She gave him up, and then she sees him again. A mother, a son, and a choice not to ruin the life he has. Eleanora Duse's only film. Italian, 1916, not an American gross. The face is why the picture was made. A house can watch it. I watched it hoping I would leave a hard meeting that cleanly, and I am not sure I would.

The leaving is the mercy. She does not spend his life to ease the meeting. That is a household doing a hard thing, not a famous face collecting a bow. The camera came for the face. I would keep the mercy. If the kids are up, the line is short: she meets him, and she will not break what he already has.

Journal

Keep Cenere in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 69. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry 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

Enoch Arden

79 instead of 69

Enoch Arden is still a drama film, and it scores 79 instead of 69. What you gain is industry: He is a sailor, and that wrecked work is why the years pass.