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Film · Disney · 1957

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Old Yeller

69Worth an evening.

Do not put it on by accident. The love is real, and the last duty is the point.

The review

The father leaves to drive cattle, and the older boy is told the farm is his job. A yellow dog arrives, wrecks things, and becomes the boy's. I am not going to soften the ending. The dog is sick with something that will kill the family if the boy will not do what has to be done. The mother does not steal the act from him. The act is his because the responsibility was already his.

Do not put this on for a small child who was not told. Do put it on, when a child is old enough, as a story about love that is not the highest good in a house. The country's children in 1957 were not protected from that sentence, and the sentence is sound. Cry. Then ask who the boy was protecting. The answer is not the dog. A house that can say that can be trusted with the film.

Journal

Keep Old Yeller in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 69. Yours can differ.

The glance

Republic is the thin one.

Does anyone owe a neighbor, a law, or a town — or is every person out for themselves?

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 republic: A town on trial along with a man.

The eight

7
Industry
A farm without the father home is work, and the boy is given the work.
8
Household
A mother, a younger brother, and the dog are the household he is suddenly responsible for.
5
Piety
The duty at the end is treated as grave, not as a shock for its own sake.
8
Courage
He does the thing he does not want to do, because the people in the house come first.
4
Republic
The public is a sparse settlement. The debt is to the family in reach.
7
Temperance
Love of the dog is not allowed to outrank the safety of the brothers.
8
Truth
The disease is real. The film does not invent a mercy the facts will not give.
8
Stewardship
A child inherits love and a duty that can cost the thing you love. Both.

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Film · Prime Video · 2003

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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.