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Film · MGM · 1943

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Lassie Come Home

68Worth an evening.

A child can watch it, if you say they sold her because the family was poor, not cruel.

The review

Start with the money, not the journey. A poor family in Yorkshire sells their collie to a duke because they need the money. The boy loses the dog for a reason a child can understand and still hate. Then she escapes and travels back. Elizabeth Taylor is in it as a child. This is not the later television series. A child can watch it. I got wetter eyes than I meant to, and the walk home earns some of that.

The loyalty is the plot, and it holds. What I want said out loud is that poverty made the sale. The parents are not villains for taking the duke's price. If you skip that, you turn a hard house into a cartoon about a clever dog. Say the poor part. Then the coming home is a promise, not a trick the collie does for the poster.

Journal

Keep Lassie Come Home in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 68. 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

The Prince of Egypt

80 instead of 68

The Prince of Egypt is still a family film, and it scores 80 instead of 68. What you gain is piety: The voice in the bush is not a metaphor for self-belief.

The eight

6
Industry
They sell her because the money has run out, and that need is the plot's start.
8
Household
A boy and his parents make the sale together; the dog is part of that house.
5
Piety
Love of the dog does not stop the sale, because the family's need speaks first.
8
Courage
The collie travels back to the boy, and the road can cost her everything.
5
Republic
A duke can buy what a poor Yorkshire family cannot afford to keep.
7
Temperance
They put down the wish to keep her, and the film does not mock the reason.
8
Truth
The poverty is an honest cause, and the dog's return is a promise kept.
7
Stewardship
The boy gets her back, and the family is still the poor one that had to sell.

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Casablanca

68Worth an evening.

Keep it. A private wound is not a reason to sit out the fight.

The review

Rick's neutrality is a costume for a hurt. Ilsa did not leave for a whim, and the film is adult enough to say so without making either of them a villain of the heart. The letters of transit are a public good disguised as a plot device. When he gives them up, he is not choosing loneliness as a style. He is putting a marriage and a resistance ahead of a feeling that was real and is no longer his to spend.

Watch it with anyone old enough to understand a goodbye. Then refuse the poster version, where the love is the point. The love is the test. The point is that he gets on the right side of a war.