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  • EMILY THE CRIMINAL (no spoilers)

    From moviePig@21:1/5 to All on Sun Dec 4 12:23:21 2022
    Beset with student loans and a checkered past that impedes her
    employment, a principled young woman turns pragmatic. EMILY THE
    CRIMINAL is a thriller drama that succeeds with the simple virtues of
    being brisk and engaging. Solidly recommended.

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  • From william ahearn@21:1/5 to pwal...@moviepig.com on Sun Dec 4 13:03:59 2022
    On Sunday, December 4, 2022 at 12:23:25 PM UTC-5, pwal...@moviepig.com wrote:
    Beset with student loans and a checkered past that impedes her
    employment, a principled young woman turns pragmatic. EMILY THE
    CRIMINAL is a thriller drama that succeeds with the simple virtues of
    being brisk and engaging. Solidly recommended.

    I liked the movie for the fluff it is. It's kinda funny that numerous crime films with a social bent of the 1930s used a similar plot.

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to william ahearn on Sun Dec 4 17:08:37 2022
    On 12/4/2022 4:03 PM, william ahearn wrote:
    On Sunday, December 4, 2022 at 12:23:25 PM UTC-5, pwal...@moviepig.com wrote:
    Beset with student loans and a checkered past that impedes her
    employment, a principled young woman turns pragmatic. EMILY THE
    CRIMINAL is a thriller drama that succeeds with the simple virtues of
    being brisk and engaging. Solidly recommended.

    I liked the movie for the fluff it is. It's kinda funny that numerous crime films with a social bent of the 1930s used a similar plot.

    Iirc, those 30s/40s films labored under a moral stricture that, e.g.,
    this one doesn't. Well, it's a lighter one, anyway...

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to william ahearn on Sun Dec 4 18:56:54 2022
    On 12/4/2022 6:33 PM, william ahearn wrote:
    On Sunday, December 4, 2022 at 5:08:41 PM UTC-5, pwal...@moviepig.com wrote:

    Iirc, those 30s/40s films labored under a moral stricture that, e.g.,
    this one doesn't. Well, it's a lighter one, anyway...

    Actually, not. The gist of Emily is close to Fritz Lang's You Only Live Once or Busby Berkeley's They Made Me a Criminal. There are others. And do you really think the above "e.g." necessary?

    At least deliberate, in that it meant to convey a thought: most (though
    not all) modern movies are allowed to portray crime as paying. E.g., I
    looked up the wiki-plot of YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE (which, like EMILY, sounds
    like a comedy), and find that Eddie suffers God's wrath in the end.

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  • From william ahearn@21:1/5 to pwal...@moviepig.com on Sun Dec 4 15:33:56 2022
    On Sunday, December 4, 2022 at 5:08:41 PM UTC-5, pwal...@moviepig.com wrote:

    Iirc, those 30s/40s films labored under a moral stricture that, e.g.,
    this one doesn't. Well, it's a lighter one, anyway...

    Actually, not. The gist of Emily is close to Fritz Lang's You Only Live Once or Busby Berkeley's They Made Me a Criminal. There are others. And do you really think the above "e.g." necessary?

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  • From william ahearn@21:1/5 to pwal...@moviepig.com on Sun Dec 4 16:32:28 2022
    On Sunday, December 4, 2022 at 6:56:58 PM UTC-5, pwal...@moviepig.com wrote:
    At least deliberate, in that it meant to convey a thought: most (though
    not all) modern movies are allowed to portray crime as paying. E.g., I
    looked up the wiki-plot of YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE (which, like EMILY, sounds
    like a comedy), and find that Eddie suffers God's wrath in the end.

    It isn't whether crime pays. It's about how the character got to the crime. Very different ideas.

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