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Film · United Artists · 1963

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Lilies of the Field

69Worth an evening.

Worth an evening. He builds it because they need it, and the film does not drown him in credit.

The review

He is driving through the desert, stops for water, and is informed by a group of nuns who have fled Europe that God has sent him to build their chapel. He is a Baptist, broke, and not sent by anyone he recognizes. He builds it anyway, between attempts to leave, because the roof is needed and because he cannot stand a thing done wrong. The nuns are not sweet. They are exact. The exactness is the comedy and the respect.

This is a small film and one of the best of these years, and it did not need the size it did not have. I would put it on for a house of almost any age above a small child. Ask who the chapel belongs to when it is done. The answer is not the man who built it, and the film is wise enough to let him drive away. A house that needs every good deed to end in recognition will fidget. Let them fidget. The fidget is the lesson arriving.

Journal

Keep Lilies of the Field in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 69. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household is the thin one.

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 69

To Kill a Mockingbird is still a drama film, and it scores 81 instead of 69. What you gain is household: A father raising children in public.

The eight

8
Industry
Brick, a roof, and a schedule he keeps trying to leave. The building is the plot.
5
Household
The nuns are a household of a kind. He is a guest who becomes necessary and still not theirs.
8
Piety
The chapel is for worship, and the film does not treat that as an excuse for the construction.
6
Courage
He stays past the point where staying is convenient, and he fights them about how.
5
Republic
A patch of desert and a few workers he hires are the public. The debt is the roof.
7
Temperance
It is small and funny and severe about money. Nobody is a saint in the easy way.
8
Truth
He wants to be admired, and the film lets the want be visible without making it the ruin.
8
Stewardship
A house inherits a finished chapel and a man who left his name on it lightly.

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Finding Nemo

69Worth an evening.

Keep it. Love that will not let go must learn to let the child swim.

The review

Marlin's grief is not a joke, and his overprotection is not a mystery. The film understands both. Dory's forgetfulness is played for laughs and then revealed as a form of faithfulness: she keeps the errand when she cannot keep the facts. Nemo is not cargo. The last act works because the boy has to do the dangerous thing himself while the father trusts him.

A family that has been scared can watch this and talk about the difference between care and a grip. The ocean is big. The promise is not that it is safe. The promise is that you go.

Journal

Keep Finding Nemo in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 69. 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 69

Spirited Away is still a animation film, and it scores 78 instead of 69. What you gain is industry: She earns the rescue by labor.