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Film · London Films · 1949

The Third Man

The Third Man

66Worth an evening.

He's charming right up to the penicillin he watered down for children.

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The review

An American who writes cheap Westerns comes to postwar Vienna because a friend offered him a job. The friend is dead. Then he isn't. I knew that turn and it still sat wrong, because the man is charming and a woman loved him.

He's been diluting penicillin and harming children. Adult night only. I wouldn't put this on where a kid can enjoy the charm and miss the rest. The welcome is how he stays in the room. The children are the fact that has to outrank it. If somebody pleasant near you is thinning a thing people need, don't file the damage under personality.

Journal

Keep The Third Man in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 66. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household is the thin one.

  1. 6Industry
  2. 3Household
  3. 7Piety
  4. 7Courage
  5. 8Republic
  6. 7Temperance
  7. 9Truth
  8. 6Stewardship

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 Night of the Hunter

79 instead of 66

The Night of the Hunter is still a thriller film, and it scores 79 instead of 66. What you gain is household: A widow's children are hunted until an old woman's house becomes the shelter.

The eight

  1. 6
    Industry

    He writes cheap Westerns; the friend's work is diluted penicillin.

  2. 3
    Household

    A woman loved him, and no child in the story is a son or daughter at home.

  3. 7
    Piety

    Charm does not stop the harm, so a friend has to choose the children.

  4. 7
    Courage

    Turning on the charming friend costs the bond that brought him to Vienna.

  5. 8
    Republic

    Vienna's children are owed real penicillin, not cover for a friend's racket.

  6. 7
    Temperance

    He stays charming while the penicillin he dilutes is harming children.

  7. 9
    Truth

    The friend is dead, then not dead, and harmed children pay for the lie.

  8. 6
    Stewardship

    What's left is harmed children and a woman who loved the man who did it.

Live historically

Name a charming friend and the child or patient who pays when he waters down the product.

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Film · 20th Century · 1979

Alien

Alien

66Worth an evening.

Ripley reads the quarantine rule. The company already decided the crew was expendable.

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The review

The fright is what people quote. The paperwork is what decides it. A commercial towing crew, not soldiers, answers a signal. The company wants the organism. On the forms the crew is expendable. Ripley, the warrant officer, reads the quarantine rule. Someone brings the organism back aboard anyway.

Adult, and I am not going to describe the body. She is not a chosen one. She is the officer whose work is to say no when the cargo is worth more to the firm than the people hauling it. Watch who treats them as a line item and who treats them as a crew. The rule was the promise. Breaking it is the bill, and the company had already signed the crew away.

Journal

Keep Alien in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 66. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household is the thin one.

  1. 9Industry
  2. 2Household
  3. 7Piety
  4. 7Courage
  5. 8Republic
  6. 6Temperance
  7. 8Truth
  8. 6Stewardship

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

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

76 instead of 66

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is still a science-fiction film, and it scores 76 instead of 66. What you gain is stewardship: What he leaves is the crew alive, and a funeral held in space.

The eight

  1. 9
    Industry

    A towing crew with ranks and a quarantine rule, and the job is the plot.

  2. 2
    Household

    No marriage, parent, or child is a life aboard; it is a workplace.

  3. 7
    Piety

    Ripley reads the rule that should stop them, and someone breaks it.

  4. 7
    Courage

    Holding quarantine means standing against the people who want the cargo.

  5. 8
    Republic

    The company marks the crew expendable; she treats the rule as owed.

  6. 6
    Temperance

    The firm wants the organism; the film stands with the refusal.

  7. 8
    Truth

    The paperwork lies about their worth, and breaking quarantine brings the bill.

  8. 6
    Stewardship

    A rule was the thing worth keeping, and the company would spend the crew.

Live historically

When they answer the signal, read the quarantine the way Ripley does before anyone excuses the break.

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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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