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Film · MGM · 1935

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A Tale of Two Cities

65Worth an evening.

A wasted man takes another man's place, and the mob is not who you cheer.

The review

Colman plays a drunk who wasted his gifts, then takes another man's place at the blade. London and Paris in the Revolution. A large prestige hit in Mutiny's year, which still does not make the mob a hero. A teen can watch it. I will not describe the executions. The substitution is the point. I stayed for the man and not the crowd, and I was glad those are not the same errand.

A man who was useless makes one costly choice. That is harder to counterfeit than a speech about the people. Tell a teen the Revolution here is not a side to join. He spends what is left of a wasted life so another man keeps his place. I was moved, then wary of how handsome a last choice can look. The cost stays. The mob is not the good news.

Journal

Keep A Tale of Two Cities in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 65. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Temperance 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

October Sky

76 instead of 65

October Sky is still a drama film, and it scores 76 instead of 65. What you gain is industry: The rockets are practice, scrap, and more practice.

The eight

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Industry
A drunk has wasted his gifts, so the work in him is already spent.
6
Household
He takes another man's place, and that man's life is what is spared.
8
Piety
A useless life is answered by one choice that costs him the rest.
9
Courage
He takes another man's place at the blade, and that is the risk.
7
Republic
London and Paris in the Revolution, and the mob is not a hero.
4
Temperance
Drink wasted the gifts; the costly choice is the want finally refused.
8
Truth
The substitution holds: he goes, and the other man keeps his place.
7
Stewardship
What he leaves is another man's life, not a mob worth cheering.

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Film · Prime Video · 1995

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A Little Princess

65Worth an evening.

Keep it. Imagination here is a way of telling the truth about a person's worth, not an escape from the attic.

The review

Sara's kindness in the attic is the film's argument, and it is not cheap because the film lets her be hungry. Miss Minchin worships money and calls it standards. The other girls learn which authority is real. There is a softness to the ending that a strict reading of the book might resist, and the softness is a mercy for a child audience. The picture to keep is the one where she gives the bun away.

A young house can watch this whenever someone has started ranking the children. Rank is the villain.

Journal

Keep A Little Princess in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 65. 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.

Consider this

Spirited Away

78 instead of 65

Spirited Away is still a family film, and it scores 78 instead of 65. What you gain is industry: She earns the rescue by labor.