Gladiator

70Worth an evening.

A father and a republic, told with too much blood and the right last sentence.

The review

Maximus wants to go home to a field. The film will not let him, and it is honest that a republic sometimes spends that kind of man. The line people remember is the right line: what you do echoes. The hours of the arena are the tax, and they are not a small tax. A boy will remember the fights. You have to make him say the line back, and say what it costs.

Adults, and older teens only with you in the room. Not for the young. If the house watches it, the conversation is the difference between revenge and a city worth leaving behind you.

Journal

Keep Gladiator in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

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The glance

Industry is the thin one.

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.

The eight

6
Industry
Soldiering and the arena are crafts. The film loves the craft more than it should.
7
Household
A wife and a son are the reason. Their murder is not a pretext he shrugs off.
6
Piety
Elysium, duty, and 'what we do in life echoes in eternity.' The soul is allowed.
9
Courage
He spends his body for a country that has already discarded him, and for the weak in the crowd.
7
Republic
The argument is that Rome belongs to the people, not to a son's appetite.
6
Temperance
The violence is the problem and the spectacle. You cannot pretend you were not invited to enjoy it.
7
Truth
A usurper's lie against a farmer-soldier's account. The film picks the account.
8
Stewardship
He wants to leave the city to a standard, not to a dynasty of himself.

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Moana 2

70Worth an evening.

The same vocation, a wider map. Less surprising, still about a people and not a selfie.

The review

A sequel has to invent a reason to leave again, and this one chooses a good reason: a people alone is not finished. Moana is no longer proving she may go. She is taking others, including the fear that she will lose them. The songs are less inevitable. The direction of the boat is still right.

Good for the family if they loved the first and you tell them this one is about not being the last boat. If they have not seen the first, start there.

Journal

Keep Moana 2 in the record.