Moana

73Worth an evening.

A girl, a people, a boat, and a task that is not about becoming famous. Keep it.

The review

Moana is given a wanting that could have been the usual wanting — see the world, be special — and the film ties it to a people who will starve if she is only special. Her father is strict because the reef has killed before. He is wrong about staying and right to care whether she comes back. The demigod is funny and proud and has to become useful. The theology is Polynesian and particular. You do not have to share it to see that a stolen heart has to be returned, and that a girl can carry her house with her instead of shedding it.

Good for the whole table, Kiki included. Afterward, ask what we have forgotten how to do that a grandparent still knew.

Journal

Keep Moana in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 73. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry is the thin one.

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.

The eight

6
Industry
Wayfinding and sailing are taught as a craft the people had lost.
7
Household
A father, a grandmother, a village. She leaves because of them, not in order to escape them.
6
Piety
Ancestors and a creation story are the engine. It is not our creed. It is treated as real.
8
Courage
She sails anyway. The ocean is not a mood. It can kill her.
8
Republic
The unit is a people who have forgotten they were voyagers. She is restoring the memory, not her brand.
7
Temperance
Maui's vanity is the obstacle. It is corrected, mostly.
7
Truth
The island is dying because of a theft. The cure is restitution, not a feeling.
9
Stewardship
The last shot is the boats going out again. That is handing on, filmed.

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Movie · Disney+ · 2004

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Spider-Man 2

73Worth an evening.

Duty that ruins your afternoon and is still yours. The best of these. Keep it.

The review

Peter is broke, late, and losing the woman he loves because he will not explain the nights. He stops. The crimes continue. The picture of him that matters is not the train fight, though the train fight is a civic miracle of ordinary people passing a body back to safety. It is a man who learns he does not get to resign from a capacity to help.

Old enough for a fight, young enough to still be forming a conscience: watch it together. Say that a gift is not a personality. It is a debt to the next person on the train.