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Film · A24 · 2016

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Moonlight

56Watch it awake.

Keep it for adults. A life told without a speech. Tenderness is the rare thing, and it is not a sin.

The review

Chiron is not a lesson in a headline. He is a child who is bullied, desired, fed, abandoned, and finally given a kitchen where he can say a true sentence. Juan, who sells the drug that is ruining the boy's mother, is also the man who teaches him to swim. The film refuses to make that a simple condemnation or a simple pardon. Both facts stand.

Adults. It is patient, and the patience is the respect. Do not use it as a pamphlet. Use it as a reminder that a boy becomes what the room rewards, and that one adult who is not performing can change the room. Then ask whether this house is that adult for anyone.

Journal

Keep Moonlight in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 56. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Republic 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

Klara and the Sun

68 instead of 56

Klara and the Sun is still a drama film, and it scores 68 instead of 56. What you gain is piety: Klara’s sun-reverence is conscience without a creed, and it holds.

The eight

6
Industry
A dealer who is also a cook and a teacher of practical things. Work is survival and also a trap.
5
Household
A mother lost to the drug. A man and his girlfriend who feed the boy. The house he needed was not the one he was born in.
3
Piety
Almost no religious language. The baptism in the ocean is the closest the film comes, and it is care.
7
Courage
The courage is not a fight. It is a boy, and later a man, letting himself be seen.
4
Republic
A neighborhood with a code. The code is not a justice.
6
Temperance
Desire is quiet. The film does not sell it and does not sneer.
8
Truth
He tells the truth about who he is, years late, at a table. The lateness is the cost.
6
Stewardship
What he might still have is one honest bond. The film does not guarantee it. It allows it.

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Film · 20th Century · 2022

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Avatar: The Way of Water

56Watch it awake.

The warning is the same as the first film. The water is not a warehouse either.

The review

The first film said a forest is not inventory. This one moves the same sentence underwater, and the sentence is still true. Jake's trouble is that the war he joined has children now, and a father who made himself a weapon does not get to retire from it when the next boat comes.

The spectacle is the product. Stay for the father who would rather the children learn the reef than learn his war, and notice the film cannot help spending them on the war anyway. Take the warning. Do not take the three hours of fire as the point.

Journal

Keep Avatar: The Way of Water in the record.