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Film · Prime Video · 2005

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

63Watch it awake.

The punishments are the old book. The factory is colder than the 1971 film. Read it that way.

The review

Charlie is still the child who has a family and almost nothing else, and the ticket is still a test the other children fail in public. Willy is stranger here, and the flashbacks make his oddness a wound rather than a mystery. That is a choice. It explains him. It also risks teaching that genius is a loneliness the world should indulge. The book did not ask for that much sympathy.

Watch it if the house already knows the story and can say which child is which. The gum, the television, the greed, the spoiled demanding: those four are the lesson, and they are still true. Do not come away wishing to live in the factory. Come away glad Charlie had a grandfather who would go with him and a family to bring the prize home to.

Journal

Keep Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 63. 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.

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Frozen II

74 instead of 63

Frozen II is still a family film, and it scores 74 instead of 63. What you gain is republic: A kingdom's prosperity on someone else's river.

The eight

6
Industry
Charlie's father is out of work. The cabbage soup is not a quirk.
8
Household
A cramped house that loves him. The grandparents are the wealth.
3
Piety
Wonder as a factory. No reverence.
6
Courage
He is brave in a quiet way: he tells the truth and he does not grab.
5
Republic
Five children, one prize, a public test.
8
Temperance
Appetite is the sin, demonstrated four times. Charlie's restraint is the point.
7
Truth
The children are not misunderstood. They are what they do.
7
Stewardship
He takes the factory in order to keep a family, not in order to become a brand.

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Film · A24 · 2022

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Everything Everywhere All at Once

63Watch it awake.

The noise is enormous. The quiet claim is that a marriage and a daughter are the life, not the failure. Worth an evening.

The review

Evelyn is told that every other version of her became someone, and that this version, the one with the laundromat and the husband and the daughter who is hurting, is the waste. The film's good ending is that she chooses the waste. Kindness, in the last movement, is not a vibe. It is a decision to stop fighting the people in the room.

It is also exhausting on purpose, and the purpose is half a trick. Adults can take it. A teenager who already thinks ordinary life is the failure does not need two hours of multiverse before the correction. Tell them the correction first, in a kitchen.

Journal

Keep Everything Everywhere All at Once in the record.