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Film · Warner Bros. · 1945

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Mildred Pierce

51Watch it awake.

She built the restaurant for the girl, and the girl still treats the work like dirt.

The review

I kept waiting for the daughter to be grateful, which tells you the picture knows that wait. A woman builds a restaurant so her girl can have a life, and the girl despises the work and the mother who did it. Joan Crawford. A murder frame opens the story. I won't describe the killing. This is for adults, late, not a family night.

The work is hers, and it matters. The daughter is a life, not a prop, which is why the contempt lands harder than a simple villain would. Love keeps paying a want that will not fill. I wouldn't put this on to coach ambition. I'd put it on if you need to see a paycheck treated as shame by the person it was built for.

Journal

Keep Mildred Pierce in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 51. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

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

Spartacus

63 instead of 51

Spartacus is still a drama film, and it scores 63 instead of 51. What you gain is republic: When the survivors will not point to him, the private man becomes a people for a minute.

The eight

9
Industry
She builds the restaurant herself, and that business is the spine of the story.
8
Household
Mother and daughter are the life here, and the girl is not a lesson in a dress.
3
Piety
Nothing stops the mother from paying, and nothing stops the daughter's contempt.
6
Courage
She risks the business and her name on a daughter who will not thank her.
2
Republic
A private house and a restaurant, and no town she is asked to answer for.
3
Temperance
The daughter's want drives it, and that want is never put down.
7
Truth
A murder frame means a story is false, and the false story comes due.
3
Stewardship
What stands is a business the daughter has already decided is beneath her.

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Film · Prime Video · 2001

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Barbie in the Nutcracker

51Watch it awake.

A small courage story inside a toy commercial. The courage is real enough for a child.

The review

Clara is told she is only a girl, and the plot contradicts the aunt without turning Clara into a brand ambassador for defiance. She is kind to a toy, steady in a strange country, and willing to be the one who moves when the mice have the room. The Nutcracker is a prince who needs help. That order is fine.

It is also a doll's film, and the last frame is a product. Do not pretend otherwise. The middle is still a usable picture of a girl who acts. Put it on for a young child. Do not build a theology out of it.

Journal

Keep Barbie in the Nutcracker in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 51. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Piety and Republic are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Room on the Broom

66 instead of 51

Room on the Broom is still a family film, and it scores 66 instead of 51. What you gain is industry: The broom is a tool.