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Film · Sony · 2002

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Spider-Man

63Watch it awake.

The uncle's sentence is the film. The costume is what the decade bought. Worth an evening.

The review

Every later costume film borrowed the suit and most of them left the uncle in the other room. The uncle's sentence is plain: the strength is not for the person who has it. Peter wants a car, a girl, a life that is finally fair, and the film lets those wants be real before it tells him no.

Watch this one before any later Spider-Man. A child old enough for a death in the family can take it. Ask them to say the sentence without the costume on. If they can, the film did its work.

Journal

Keep Spider-Man in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 63. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety is the thin one.

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

Kung Fu Panda

75 instead of 63

Kung Fu Panda is still a action film, and it scores 75 instead of 63. What you gain is industry: Mastery is repetition.

The eight

5
Industry
He practices the thing he was given until it is a patrol, not a stunt.
6
Household
An aunt and an uncle are the house. Their ordinary goodness is the standard.
4
Piety
With power comes a sentence that functions as a creed, even if no one prays it.
8
Courage
He goes back out after the night has already taken someone he loves.
6
Republic
The city is a specific block: a train, a street, a crowd that at last helps.
6
Temperance
The romance is clumsy and human. The violence is not the joke.
8
Truth
He learns he is not excused by what was done to him.
7
Stewardship
What he owes is the next person who would otherwise fall.

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Film · Prime Video · 2005

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

63Watch it awake.

The punishments are the old book. The factory is colder than the 1971 film. Read it that way.

The review

Charlie is still the child who has a family and almost nothing else, and the ticket is still a test the other children fail in public. Willy is stranger here, and the flashbacks make his oddness a wound rather than a mystery. That is a choice. It explains him. It also risks teaching that genius is a loneliness the world should indulge. The book did not ask for that much sympathy.

Watch it if the house already knows the story and can say which child is which. The gum, the television, the greed, the spoiled demanding: those four are the lesson, and they are still true. Do not come away wishing to live in the factory. Come away glad Charlie had a grandfather who would go with him and a family to bring the prize home to.