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Film · Disney · 1961

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One Hundred and One Dalmatians

61Watch it awake.

A whole house can watch it. The crime is greed, and the dogs do the rescuing.

The review

A woman wants a coat made of puppies. The sentence is ugly, and the film keeps it ugly even while it plays the joke of her temper. Two dogs and the people who love them go and get the puppies back, with help from animals who have no reason except that this is the errand. The journey is cold and specific. It is not a lecture about kindness with the plot removed.

I leave it on for children. The fear is sized to a theft and a chase, not to a cruelty the camera lingers on. What they can say afterward is simple: someone wanted to use a living thing, and the others would not allow it. That is enough of a moral for an evening, and it does not require you to pretend the songs are theology.

Journal

Keep One Hundred and One Dalmatians in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 61. 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

The Iron Giant

73 instead of 61

The Iron Giant is still a animation film, and it scores 73 instead of 61. What you gain is piety: A soul is the question, and it is not laughed off.

The eight

6
Industry
The rescue is a journey with a plan, not a wish the animators grant for free.
8
Household
A couple, their dogs, and the puppies are a household the plot is trying to return.
3
Piety
No prayer. The good is loyalty and the refusal to treat a living thing as a coat.
7
Courage
The dogs cross a winter country for the puppies, and they do not delegate it.
4
Republic
The debt is to the puppies and to the animals who help. The city is a backdrop.
6
Temperance
Her appetite is the joke and the threat, and the film does not ask you to share it.
7
Truth
Wanting the skins is shown as wanting the skins. Nobody calls it fashion in a kind voice.
8
Stewardship
A child leaves knowing a coat is not worth a life, which is a plain inheritance.

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Film · Warner Bros. · 2005

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Batman Begins

61Watch it awake.

Fear, a city, a training. The serious costume film, before the carnival. Worth an evening.

The review

Before the later films made a villain the attraction, this one was about a rich boy who is afraid and a city whose institutions have been bought. The teacher in the mountains offers a clean justice that would kill the city to save it. The refusal of that teacher is the moral event. A butler and a cop are the ordinary courage beside the costume.

Adults and older teens. It is a better evening than the spectacle that came after it in the genre. Ask what kind of fear is a tool and what kind is a teacher you should leave on the mountain.