Film · Prime Video · 2001
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
65Worth an evening.
Friendship, courage, and a school. The magic is the setting. The loyalty is the point.
The review
The Dursleys are petty tyrants and the film does not ask you to bond with them. Hogwarts is a school with rules, houses, a library, and adults who are sometimes fools. Harry, Ron, and Hermione win because one of them is brave, one is loyal, and one does the reading. That division of labor is worth more than the wands.
Voldemort wants to live forever and will use a child's body to do it. The story hates that. It does not hate limits. Snape is unfair and still not the villain of the year, which is a useful complication. A family can start here. Later books darken. This one still believes a school can make a boy brave without making him cruel.
Journal
Keep Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 65. 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
Spirited Away
78 instead of 65
Spirited Away is still a fantasy film, and it scores 78 instead of 65. What you gain is industry: She earns the rescue by labor.
The eight
- 7Industry
Study, sport, and a mystery they actually investigate.
- 6Household
A dead household, a cruel foster house, and a friend who becomes a brother.
- 4Piety
Magic replaces providence. Sacrifice still matters more than the spell.
- 8Courage
He walks toward the man who killed his parents.
- 6Republic
A school is a little republic of houses, rules, and cheating.
- 7Temperance
The stone is not for keeping. Wanting forever is the villain's vice.
- 7Truth
Appearances mislead. The reading girl is right.
- 7Stewardship
He protects the stone instead of using it.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
Live Historic · Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone · 65IMDb
