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Film · United Artists · 1969

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Kes

55Watch it awake.

A boy trains a kestrel with a library book. The town does not make room for it.

The review

A skinny boy in a Yorkshire mining town is bullied at school and at home. He takes a kestrel from a nest and trains it from a library book. The bird is the one thing that is his.

The school does not have room for it. The brother does not. It is a small film and it is a true one. Older children can watch it if someone is there for the ending, which does not rescue him into a speech. The book from the library is the hope. Say that. Then leave the room quieter than you found it.

Journal

Keep Kes in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 55. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Republic 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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Witness

68 instead of 55

Witness is still a drama film, and it scores 68 instead of 55. What you gain is household: A widow, a child, a grandfather.

The eight

5
Industry
A mining town. The boy does the patient work of training a hawk.
3
Household
Home is where he is bullied. Nobody there is keeping him.
4
Piety
The bird is the nearest thing he has to a reason to be careful.
7
Courage
He keeps at the training in a place that laughs at him.
4
Republic
The school is a public that has already decided he is nothing.
7
Temperance
Quiet. No appetite is being sold. The bird requires patience.
8
Truth
It does not pretend the town will make room. The book is the only help.
6
Stewardship
A library book and a wild bird. What he was trying to keep was alive.

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Film · 20th Century · 2009

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Avatar

55Watch it awake.

The land is not a warehouse. The sermon is right. The body he borrows, and the war that follows, are the part to hold lightly.

The review

A corporation will burn a place for a rock, and the film is not shy about naming that. That is the line to keep. Jake Sully's answer is to become the people he was sent to betray, and then to lead their war, which is a thinner answer than the warning.

Watch it for the warning. Do not take the blue body as a permission to throw your own life away for a feeling of belonging.

Journal

Keep Avatar in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 55. Yours can differ.

The glance

Republic and Temperance are the thin ones.

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

Demon Slayer: Mugen Train

65 instead of 55

Demon Slayer: Mugen Train is still a action film, and it scores 65 instead of 55. What you gain is courage: He stays when the dream offers him his family back.