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Film · Prime Video · 2003

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Secondhand Lions

61Watch it awake.

Keep it. What a man should be is said out loud, and then tested by whether they keep the boy.

The review

Hub and Garth are ridiculous, wealthy, and, in the story they tell, faithful to a harder life than the suburb wants to hear. The film lets the tale stay a little unverified, because the boy needs the standard more than he needs the paperwork. The standard is plain: men do not lie, steal, or cheat, and they do not tolerate those who do. Some of the adventure is boys'-book stuff. The porch is the true set. A child left by a careless mother is not a comedy premise, and the film, to its credit, does not find her charming.

Watch it with a boy who is deciding what kind of man the loud world is offering. Then be dull and reliable on the porch you actually have.

Journal

Keep Secondhand Lions 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

Babe

73 instead of 61

Babe is still a comedy film, and it scores 73 instead of 61. What you gain is industry: The work of herding, practiced.

The eight

6
Industry
Old men who still know how to work and fight.
8
Household
Uncles who accept a charge they did not ask for.
4
Piety
A code, said plainly.
7
Courage
They keep him.
4
Republic
A private ethic more than a public one.
6
Temperance
The code limits them.
6
Truth
The story may be tall. The care is not.
8
Stewardship
The speech is the part to memorize, if you mean to live it.

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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.