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Film · France · 1899

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Cinderella

33Leave it.

Méliès paints the kitchen, the ball, and the slipper, and this is not the cartoon.

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The review

Do not put on the 1950 cartoon and think you have seen this. Méliès, 1899, a féerie: the kitchen, the ball, the slipper, done with tricks and painted sets. A child can watch it. It is a reel of the tale, not the book and not the later pictures. The wish is the product.

I knew the shape so well I had to keep reminding myself I was looking at paint and a trick. She is a girl in a kitchen, and the picture is in a hurry to get her to the ball. The work is the doorway, not the point. Pleasant enough for a child if you say whose film it is. I would not let the slipper stand in for a real household. The reel never stays with anyone long enough to show a life.

Journal

Keep Cinderella in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 33. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship 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

Beetlejuice

45 instead of 33

Beetlejuice is still a fantasy film, and it scores 45 instead of 33. What you gain is stewardship: The good act is protecting Lydia, not reclaiming the décor.

The eight

4
Industry
The kitchen is in the reel, and then the wish takes over the picture.
5
Household
Kitchen, ball, and slipper: the old household tale, played as a reel.
2
Piety
Tricks grant the wish, and nobody has to stop wanting it.
3
Courage
She reaches the ball by tricks and paint, not by a risk she would miss.
2
Republic
A ball and a slipper, and no neighbor or law is owed anything.
3
Temperance
The wish is the product, so the reel teaches you to want the wish.
4
Truth
Tricks and painted sets retell the tale; this reel is not the book.
3
Stewardship
A child can watch the wish, and the kitchen work is not what remains.

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Bejeweled Fishes

33Leave it.

Attention is good. Sparkle without a fact is a screensaver.

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The review

A reel of jeweled creatures can teach color and patience to a child, which is not nothing. It fails the moment it becomes a jewelry case, creatures edited into gems, no habitat, no cost. The sea is not a boutique.

Put a short stretch on if the room will be quiet. If the film never names a place or a threat, you have had a decoration. Decorations are allowed. They are not measures.