I Built 100 Houses and Gave Them Away

54Watch it awake.

The houses are real. So is the appetite for being seen giving them. Watch it awake. Do not let a child think charity is a stunt.

The review

Do not be cynical about the roof. A family that had no house and then had one has received a real good, and sneering at the roof because you dislike the genre is a cheap virtue. The measure is allowed to count the house.

It is also allowed to count the camera. The edit trains you to want the gasp, the tear, the number climbing. A child who learns generosity from this will learn to give where everyone can see. That is not the same gift. If you watch it, watch it with that sentence ready, and then do a kindness no one will film.

Journal

Keep I Built 100 Houses and Gave Them Away in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 54. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Temperance are the thin ones.

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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How We Can Keep Plastics Out of Our Ocean

66 instead of 54

How We Can Keep Plastics Out of Our Ocean is still a documentary film, and it scores 66 instead of 54. What you gain is temperance: The film does not make the disaster glamorous.

The eight

6
Industry
Building is real work. The film is more interested in the reveal than the trades.
5
Household
Families receive a house. Their life is a scene in someone else's video.
4
Piety
Generosity shows up. Humility does not. The giver remains the hero.
7
Courage
He spends a fortune in public and does not flinch at the scale.
5
Republic
A neighbor is helped. The help arrives as a production.
3
Temperance
Scale, shock, and the next reveal are the lesson the edit is teaching.
6
Truth
The houses exist. The story of how it feels to give them is doing at least half the work.
7
Stewardship
A family has a roof that was not there. That survives the credits, and it matters.

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Backyard Squirrel Maze

59Watch it awake.

Real engineering, spent on a joke the children will love. Fine for a Saturday. Not a life.

The review

The squirrels are the advertisement. The thing worth keeping is a man who builds a machine, watches it fail, and changes the machine instead of the story. Children understand that faster than a speech about grit.

Do not let it become the whole evening. It is a good half hour and a thin meal. When it ends, hand somebody cardboard and a problem. Watching an engineer is not the same as becoming one.