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Film · Disney · 1946

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Song of the South

16Leave it.

The tales stick with a child, and so does a plantation shown as a kindness.

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The review

Disney had a hit, and later reissues swelled it. Animated tales, told by Uncle Remus to a white child on a plantation after the war. The tales are what children remember. I can still hum pieces without trying, which is the trap. The frame treats that plantation as a kindness and the teller as happy in it. A child who sees it will take the frame with the songs. They don't sort the animals from the smile put on the place.

The studio has kept the film off its own shelf for years. I wouldn't put it on to be fair to a hit. If a song from it is already in the house, leave the picture off that song. Say what the frame is if anyone asks for the movie. Then pick a different film for the night.

Journal

Keep Song of the South in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 16. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth 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

South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

24 instead of 16

South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut is still a animation film, and it scores 24 instead of 16. What you gain is truth: It tells on adult hypocrisy, then joins it.

The eight

2
Industry
Plantation work is painted as kindness, not as anyone's labor.
3
Household
A white child listens, inside a plantation posed as a kind home.
1
Piety
The frame never lets anyone name that kindness as a wrong.
2
Courage
No one risks disturbing a teller the frame insists is happy.
1
Republic
A postwar plantation is called a kindness, so no debt gets owed.
2
Temperance
The songs train a child to want the frame that comes with them.
1
Truth
The teller is shown happy in a kindness the plantation was not.
1
Stewardship
A child leaves carrying the songs and the plantation frame together.

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Film · 20th Century · 1975

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show

16Leave it.

Funny if you already live in the costume. Not for kids, and not a little church.

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The review

People dressed for it. A newly engaged couple breaks down and enters a castle where a scientist from another planet is building a man. The songs became a midnight ritual. The joke is innocence walking into appetite and staying. If you are already inside that joke, it is funny. It is adult, and it is not for children.

They arrived engaged. The night does not hand that back. Staying is the punchline. I would not play this where a kid can hear the songs and decide the castle is the more interesting life. A ritual you dress up for is still a ritual, and this one is organized around wanting, not around getting anybody home.