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Film · Disney · 1959

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Sleeping Beauty

58Watch it awake.

A fairy tale a small child can have. The kingdom falls asleep because someone looked away.

The review

A king and queen fail to invite one fairy, and the fairy's curse is that their daughter will die on a spindle. The other fairies commute death to sleep and then do the sensible thing: they hide the child and tell her nothing, which works until the one afternoon they look away. The design is the most beautiful of the studio's fairy tales. The design is not a substitute for the plot, and the plot is about a watch that failed.

A small child can have this. The witch is frightening in the way a fairy tale is supposed to be frightening, and it ends. I would not load it with speeches. I would ask, later, who was supposed to be watching. The answer includes the fairies, who were kind and still looked away. Kindness is not the same as attention. A kingdom asleep is what you get when the people charged with the child get distracted. That is a usable evening.

Journal

Keep Sleeping Beauty in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 58. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry is the thin one.

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.

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An American Tail

70 instead of 58

An American Tail is still a animation film, and it scores 70 instead of 58. What you gain is household: The entire plot is parents and a child finding each other.

The eight

5
Industry
The fairies do the work of hiding a child. The work is the story, not the dress.
6
Household
A child is hidden in a cottage, and the cottage is more of a home than the court.
5
Piety
A curse and a vow are the machinery. The film takes both seriously enough for a child.
6
Courage
The prince has to walk toward the thorn. The walk is short and it is still the task.
5
Republic
A whole kingdom pays for a court's mistake. That is a public fact, drawn simply.
6
Temperance
The luxury is the design. The story itself is lean and finishes.
6
Truth
The curse is a curse. Nobody calls the spindle a harmless toy after the fact.
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Stewardship
A child inherits a tale about watching, and about a promise kept at a cost.

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Film · Columbia · 1959

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Anatomy of a Murder

58Watch it awake.

Adults. The courtroom is the work. What happened and what can be proved are not the same fact.

The review

A soldier shoots a bar owner and says the man raped his wife. A former prosecutor who now fishes more than he practices takes the defense. I am not going to describe the testimony. In 1959 the testimony itself was the scandal, because a courtroom in an American film was asked to say out loud what a trial of this kind has to say. The lawyer is good at the saying. He is also having a good time, and the film lets you see the good time, which is the correction inside the craft.

Adults. A house does not need this as a primer. A house that wants one picture of how a verdict is made, rather than how a villain confesses, can use it. Ask, at the end, what the jury was allowed to know and what the rooms already knew. Those are different piles. The decade's more famous courtroom hours snap the case shut with a witness who breaks. This one is more honest about the gap, and less honest about whether the lawyer is a man to admire. Admire the proceeding. Decline the grin.

Journal

Keep Anatomy of a Murder in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 58. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

12 Angry Men

75 instead of 58

12 Angry Men is still a drama film, and it scores 75 instead of 58. What you gain is stewardship: It hands you the duty to be inconvenient.