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Film · Affirm · 2011

Courageous

Name: Courageous scores 74 — Live Historic
Item: Courageous
Rating: 74
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74Worth an evening.

A film that asks men to be fathers on purpose. The writing is plain. The ask is not.

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The review

It is a sermon with characters, and some of the lines sound like a sermon. I would rather a plain sermon on fatherhood than another expert film about a man-child. The story that lands is the man who has a daughter he has not been a father to, and the other men who have to decide if the resolution applies to him or only to the respectable failures. A resolution you will not apply is a poster.

Fathers should watch it, and mothers, and older sons. Do not smirk at the earnestness unless your own house is in better order than theirs. The charge is to write down, in a sentence a child could hear, what you are actually promising them. Then keep it on a week when nobody is filming you.

Journal

Keep Courageous in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 74. 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.

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Cabrini

83 instead of 74

Cabrini is still a drama film, and it scores 83 instead of 74. What you gain is industry: Founding a mission is logistics, politics, and nursing.

The eight

7
Industry
Police work and a second, harder job at home. The film knows both are work.
9
Household
Fatherhood is the subject, including the father who is absent and the one who resolves not to be.
8
Piety
Scripture is the standard they write down. It is not a caption.
7
Courage
Keeping the resolution when it costs a friendship or a case is the courage.
6
Republic
Officers in a real city. The public duty and the kitchen are connected on purpose.
7
Temperance
Gangs and grief are present and not enjoyed.
6
Truth
The resolution is cleaner than a man. The film's best moments are when a man fails it and says so.
9
Stewardship
The whole point is what a father hands a child besides a roof.

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Arrival

74Worth an evening.

Understanding is the work. She says yes to a child she will lose. That yes is the film.

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The review

Louise's profession is the unfashionable one: sit with a sentence until it means what the speaker meant, not what you feared. The generals want a weapon. The film thinks a grammar is more dangerous and more useful than a weapon, because a grammar changes what you are able to choose. When she sees the whole of her life with her daughter, including the end, she does not flinch into a safer timeline.

Adults, and teenagers who can be quiet. This is one of the few popular films of the decade that treats knowledge as a moral act. Watch it when the house is tempted to answer before it has understood.