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Film · Universal · 1930

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All Quiet on the Western Front

66Worth an evening.

A teen can watch it, and there is no parade at the end because it isn't a victory.

The review

Best picture, the figure the tallies still print. A wilder number sometimes gets hung on Tom Sawyer, and that is not this ledger. Schoolboys are talked into the Great War by a teacher. The boys who believed the speech are eaten by it. Lew Ayres. The boots pass from one dead man to the next. Germany banned it. A teen can watch. I won't linger on the wounds, and I won't let anybody call the ending a win.

The last image is a hand reaching, not a victory. That is the correction to the speech. Kids can hear a room cheer for a war and not know the bill. This one shows the bill without a parade attached. If you put it on, stay for the quiet. Say the ban: a country did not want this picture of its own boys. The boots are what get passed on. Not a reason to want another war.

Journal

Keep All Quiet on the Western Front in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 66. Yours can differ.

The glance

Stewardship is the thin one.

What is left for the people who come after — a place, a craft, a name?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Master and Commander

81 instead of 66

Master and Commander is still a war film, and it scores 81 instead of 66. What you gain is stewardship: The point of the voyage is that the crew comes home, and the sea is respected.

The eight

7
Industry
A teacher's speech sends them; the war is the work that then eats the boys.
6
Household
The schoolboys are the lives taken out of their houses by the speech.
5
Piety
Conscience does not stop the classroom, so the speech is free to eat them.
6
Courage
They risk the lives they had as boys, and a teacher sold them that risk.
8
Republic
A teacher owed them the truth; Germany banned the film that showed the bill.
8
Temperance
A hand reaching, not a victory, so you are not sent out wanting another war.
9
Truth
The boys believe the speech, and the boots pass from one dead man to the next.
4
Stewardship
Boots for the next dead man, and a reaching hand, are what the war leaves.

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Film · Prime Video · 2012

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ParaNorman

66Worth an evening.

Fear faced by understanding, not by a spear. Good for a child who can take a ghost.

The review

Norman is bullied for a gift that is mostly the willingness to hear. The town prefers a mob and a story about a witch. The film's turn, that the cursed child was a frightened child and the curse was the town's, is the right turn. It does not ask you to pretend the dead are cute from the first minute. It asks you to stop the torch.

Some of the jokes are ruder than the fable needs. The fable holds. A house can watch it near Halloween and come out less eager to chant at the odd boy. That is a rare result for a cartoon with zombies.

Journal

Keep ParaNorman in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 66. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry is the thin one.

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

The Peanuts Movie

74 instead of 66

The Peanuts Movie is still a animation film, and it scores 74 instead of 66. What you gain is industry: He studies, he practices the dance, he does the assignment.