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Film · Paramount · 2007

Freedom Writers

Name: Freedom Writers scores 59 — Live Historic
Item: Freedom Writers
Rating: 59
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59Watch it awake.

The pages are the point. The teacher is the occasion. Do not leave thinking the savior was the lesson.

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The review

The shape is familiar and partly false: a young white teacher, a room of students the system had filed away, a triumph. Inside that shape there is a truer thing. She makes them write what happened, and she reads it, and the authority in the room moves from her lesson plan to their sentences. The film still spends too much time on her marriage and her glow.

Older teenagers can watch it with you. Say out loud that the students were already people before she arrived. Then keep the assignment, which does not require her: a page that tells the truth about a day, read by someone who will not punish the truth. That is a thing a parent can do tonight.

Journal

Keep Freedom Writers in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 59. 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.

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The Lion King

71 instead of 59

The Lion King is still a drama film, and it scores 71 instead of 59. What you gain is household: A father killed.

The eight

7
Industry
Teaching is shown as preparation, hours, and a second job to pay for the books.
4
Household
Her own marriage thins because the classroom ate the house. The film notices and does not quite judge it.
4
Piety
Conscience, not a creed. She believes the students are worth the hours.
7
Courage
They read their own streets back to the room. That is braver than her speech.
6
Republic
A public school that had already sorted these children out of the future.
6
Temperance
The violence in their lives is told, not paraded.
7
Truth
The diary rule is that the page can be true. The film is truest when it stays with the pages.
6
Stewardship
What gets handed on is a habit of writing. The inspiration is extra.

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Film · Prime Video · 2004

Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper

59Watch it awake.

Two girls, one duty. Better than the poster. Still a doll's film.

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The review

The pauper works. The princess is being sold into a marriage to save a bankrupt court. The film treats that sale as wrong and the work as honorable, which is more than most pink posters manage. They help each other. The poor girl is not a moral lesson the rich girl consumes.

The songs are candy and the ending is a double wedding. Fine for a child who wants a dress and a plot. Say out loud that a real household is not saved by a secret twin. It is saved by the work the pauper already knew how to do.

Journal

Keep Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 59. 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.

Consider this

WALL-E

73 instead of 59

WALL-E is still a family film, and it scores 73 instead of 59. What you gain is stewardship: The plant is the charge.