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Movie · Prime Video · 2009

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Coraline

66Worth an evening.

She goes home to the parents who are imperfect and real. Frightening, and worth it for an older child beside you.

The review

Coraline is bored of parents who are busy, and a door offers her the same house with better food and a mother who has all the time in the world. The price is her eyes. The film is clear, and it should be: a love that needs you altered, buttoned, and grateful for the alteration is not love. The real parents are not idealized. They are hers. She chooses them.

Too frightening for a small child. Right for an older one who can say, afterward, why she did not stay. If they cannot say it, they were too young for the door.

Journal

Keep Coraline in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 66. Yours can differ.

The glance

Republic is the thin one.

Does anyone owe a neighbor, a law, or a town — or is every person out for themselves?

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

Consider this

Spirited Away

78 instead of 66

Spirited Away is still a fantasy film, and it scores 78 instead of 66. What you gain is industry: She earns the rescue by labor.

The eight

5
Industry
The other mother works at her trap. The real parents are busy and flawed and still the true house.
8
Household
A girl learns the difference between a parent who is tired and a parent who wants to own her.
6
Piety
Something is owed to the stolen children. The button eyes are a blasphemy the film knows is a blasphemy.
8
Courage
She goes back, for the ghost children and for herself. She does not stay in the pretty room.
4
Republic
A house and a few neighbors. The world is small and sufficient.
7
Temperance
Every treat has a hook. The film does not ask you to want the feast.
8
Truth
The other mother lies by improving everything. Coraline learns to prefer the true, plainer thing.
7
Stewardship
She will not leave the other children lost. What she saves, she does not keep as a trophy.

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Movie · Disney+ · 2020

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Hamilton

66Worth an evening.

A republic, built by a man who could not stop working or wanting. Thrilling, and not innocent.

The review

This is the rare popular work that thinks the founding is interesting, and it is right. Hamilton's pen, Washington's restraint, and the argument over what a government owes a soldier are real subjects. Eliza is the conscience the title character keeps failing. The language is foul, the adultery is sung to break your heart in his favor, and a duel is the punctuation. A fifteen-year-old can learn from it and can also learn the wrong romance with brilliance.

Watch it with an older teen, not with the young. Stop after Eliza takes the narrative back, and ask what she built that he could not.

Journal

Keep Hamilton in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 66. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Temperance are the thin ones.

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

Hacksaw Ridge

74 instead of 66

Hacksaw Ridge is still a history film, and it scores 74 instead of 66. What you gain is piety: Faith that costs a rank and a rifle.