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Film · RKO · 1933

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Little Women

75Worth an evening.

This is a house a child can watch, and the household is the point of the night.

The review

Put this on if a child can sit. Four sisters in a Civil War house, a mother holding it, a father away, a neighbor boy. Katharine Hepburn plays Jo, from Alcott. The book is older than the film, and this is the version that decade saw. Jo wants a life that is not only marriage. The household is the point. I felt the rooms more than the reputation.

A child can watch it. Illness takes one sister, and I won't linger on that. The mother's work is the house itself. It isn't girls lined up to be chosen, because Jo wants something else. Stay in the room if the illness comes. Then let the house be what you talk about.

Journal

Keep Little Women 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.

Consider this

It's a Wonderful Life

85 instead of 75

It's a Wonderful Life is still a drama film, and it scores 85 instead of 75. What you gain is piety: Prayer is not a joke here.

The eight

8
Industry
A mother holds the house while the father is away, and that labor is the story.
9
Household
Four sisters, a mother, a father away, a neighbor boy: the household is the point.
6
Piety
Care of the house can outrank a smaller want, and Jo still asks for her own life.
7
Courage
The father is away in the war, and Jo risks a life that is not only marriage.
7
Republic
A Civil War house owes a father to the country and a roof to a neighbor boy.
7
Temperance
The wants stay inside a family a child can watch, not a chase for the next thrill.
8
Truth
Jo's wish is plain, the illness isn't hidden, and this is the version that decade saw.
8
Stewardship
What's left is a house a child can watch, held by the mother who stayed.

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Film · Prime Video · 1957

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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.