Kung Fu Panda

75Worth an evening.

Training, a father, and a villain who really is one. A good evening.

The review

Po wants the legend. The film makes him earn the stairs, the training, and the truth that the dragon scroll is blank. There is no secret technique. There is a fat panda who will work, and a father in a noodle shop who is proud without pretending to be a master. Shifu is hard because the work is hard. Tai Lung is not redeemed by a sad origin. The origin explains him. It does not excuse the village.

The jokes are jokes. The fights are fights. A boy can see that being chosen is the start of the labor, not the end of it. That is the right order, and most hero films reverse it.

Journal

Keep Kung Fu Panda in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 75. 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.

The eight

9
Industry
Mastery is repetition. The noodle shop is also real work.
8
Household
An adoptive father, a hard teacher, a son who comes home.
5
Piety
The scroll is empty. Reverence is for the work, not a relic.
8
Courage
He stands in for the valley after he has trained, not before.
7
Republic
A village worth defending. A student who betrayed it is not its victim.
7
Temperance
Appetite is his comedy. It is not his victory condition.
8
Truth
The blank scroll tells the truth: there is no cheat.
8
Stewardship
A son leaves with a craft, not a costume.

Where to watch

Finding the page.

Live Historic · Kung Fu Panda · 75IMDb

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Film · Prime Video · 1957

Pass it on

12 Angry Men

75Worth an evening.

Keep it. A room, a reasonable doubt, and the courage to be the first no.

The review

Eleven men want the afternoon back. The twelfth wants the testimony walked through, because a life is not a schedule. The film is a whole civics lesson in one sweatbox: prejudice with a smile, prejudice with a shout, and the slow work of looking at a knife and a train schedule until the story the state told no longer holds. Nobody is romanticized for being angry. The quiet man is not a saint. He is simply unwilling to be rushed into a killing.

A teenager should see this before they see another thriller about a genius detective. Justice here looks like staying in the chair. That is a picture this house can use.

Journal

Keep 12 Angry Men in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 75. 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.

Consider this

To Kill a Mockingbird

81 instead of 75

To Kill a Mockingbird is still a drama film, and it scores 81 instead of 75. What you gain is household: A father raising children in public.