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Film · France · 1946

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Beauty and the Beast

64Watch it awake.

Cocteau's girl takes her father's place, and this is not the cartoon you remember.

The review

This is Cocteau, not Disney, and I would say that before anyone sits down expecting songs. A merchant picks a rose and owes his life for it. His daughter goes to the beast's house in his place. The house is magic. The beast wants to be loved as he is, not cleaned up into a nicer story. She leaves, and she almost comes back too late. A child can watch it with a parent.

The house has a sensual tone a parent will notice. I noticed it, and I am not going to turn that into a description. What I liked was the plain swap, a daughter paying a father's debt with her own time. She leaves and almost comes back too late, which felt like a promise instead of a spell. If you wanted the cartoon, the pace will bother you. Keep it for the girl who goes.

Journal

Keep Beauty and the Beast in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 64. 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 Wizard of Oz

71 instead of 64

The Wizard of Oz is still a fantasy film, and it scores 71 instead of 64. What you gain is stewardship: The charge of the story is to get the child home unchanged in her loyalties.

The eight

4
Industry
A merchant's rose starts the debt; the magic house is not a trade.
9
Household
A daughter takes her father's place, and that swap is the life here.
7
Piety
She pays the father's debt herself instead of leaving him to it.
8
Courage
She enters the beast's house for him and later almost returns too late.
5
Republic
The rose is a rule of that house: a life is owed and must be paid.
5
Temperance
The beast wants to be loved as he is, which means he has to wait.
7
Truth
She stands in for her father, and nearly fails the return that promise needs.
6
Stewardship
The father is spared only if she comes back, and she almost doesn't.

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Film · Universal · 2019

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1917

64Watch it awake.

A message carried through a broken country. The courage is not the camera. The courage is the errand.

The review

Schofield is not chosen because he is special. He is chosen because he can run and because he has a brother in the line, which is a questionable reason for a general to use and an understandable one for a soldier to accept. The film's gamble is to stay with the body that has to cross the ground. When it becomes a stunt, it thins. When it stays an errand, it is about duty under a command that is not always worthy of the men.

Older teenagers and adults. Do not let the technique be the conversation. The conversation is a piece of paper that can save lives if a tired man will keep walking. Most of moral life is closer to that than to a speech.

Journal

Keep 1917 in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 64. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety are the thin ones.

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

Hacksaw Ridge

74 instead of 64

Hacksaw Ridge is still a war film, and it scores 74 instead of 64. What you gain is piety: Faith that costs a rank and a rifle.