The Sound of Music

74Worth an evening.

Keep it. The songs are the door. The leaving is the test of the house.

The review

Maria brings music back to children who were being managed like a crew. That is a real good, and the film is not foolish to dwell on it. The captain's thaw is a father's thaw, which matters more than the romance. Then the third act remembers there is a regime. Collaboration is offered as politeness. They climb instead. A family film that ends on a mountain border is telling the truth that joy is not an escape from history.

Watch the whole thing, not only the gazebo. The gazebo is sweet. The mountain is why the sweetness was worth defending.

Journal

Keep The Sound of Music in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 74. 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.

Consider this

A Man for All Seasons

89 instead of 74

A Man for All Seasons is still a drama film, and it scores 89 instead of 74. What you gain is piety: Faith is the center, and it is not a mood.

The eight

6
Industry
A household reordered, then a flight that takes work.
9
Household
Children restored to a father.
7
Piety
The abbey is real, not a postcard, when it counts.
8
Courage
They leave rather than comply.
8
Republic
A nation asking good people to look away.
6
Temperance
Sentiment, mostly in the service of the right things.
7
Truth
The offer to stay and cooperate is shown as a trap.
8
Stewardship
It hands on a family that can sing and can also refuse.

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74Worth an evening.

Understanding is the work. She says yes to a child she will lose. That yes is the film.

The review

Louise's profession is the unfashionable one: sit with a sentence until it means what the speaker meant, not what you feared. The generals want a weapon. The film thinks a grammar is more dangerous and more useful than a weapon, because a grammar changes what you are able to choose. When she sees the whole of her life with her daughter, including the end, she does not flinch into a safer timeline.

Adults, and teenagers who can be quiet. This is one of the few popular films of the decade that treats knowledge as a moral act. Watch it when the house is tempted to answer before it has understood.