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Film · 20th Century · 1968

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Planet of the Apes

51Watch it awake.

The cage is the scare, and the beach tells you the ruin was ours.

The review

Astronauts crash on a planet where apes speak and humans are mute animals. One man is caged and then tried. The ape world is sure of itself. If the film only wanted to flip a zoo, the joke would be thin. It wants the argument pointed at us, and it is willing to be grim about it.

The ending is a beach and the ruined Statue of Liberty. I knew that shock was coming the way anyone does now, and it still earns the walk. The parable is our own ruin. That is a bleak thing for a weeknight, and it is an honest one. Do not skip to the statue because a friend already said it. The trial is how the film makes the beach mean a people, not a twist. Sit through the cage first.

Journal

Keep Planet of the Apes in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 51. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Stewardship 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

The Martian

63 instead of 51

The Martian is still a science-fiction film, and it scores 63 instead of 51. What you gain is industry: He does the math, the farming, the repair.

The eight

4
Industry
Astronauts and a trial, and nobody's ordinary job is what the film is for.
2
Household
No parent, spouse, or child is the life being kept or lost on screen.
5
Piety
The ape court is sure, and the man on trial will not bow to that certainty.
7
Courage
Caged and tried, he keeps pushing where they have already called him an animal.
7
Republic
A trial, a ruled society, and a beach that says the ruined republic was ours.
5
Temperance
The shock is the point, earned once, not a hook dangled for the next fright.
9
Truth
The statue tells the truth the cage was hiding: this ruin is our own.
2
Stewardship
What a people left is a ruined statue and a world that does not remember them.

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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.