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Film · Prime Video · 2016

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The BFG

68Worth an evening.

A protector, a child, and a clear line about who eats whom. Dahl, softened, still sound.

The review

The BFG's greatness is not his size. It is that he refuses the diet of the other giants. Sophie is an orphan who has had to be sharp, and the film lets her be sharp without making every adult a clown. The queen, of all people, is competent. The man-eating giants are not misunderstood. They are hungry for the wrong thing, and they are stopped.

Dreams are bottled and delivered. That is whimsy. The moral is plain: strength is for guarding, not for swallowing. A child who can handle a mild fright can watch it. Sit with them.

Journal

Keep The BFG in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 68. 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

Spirited Away

78 instead of 68

Spirited Away is still a family film, and it scores 78 instead of 68. What you gain is industry: She earns the rescue by labor.

The eight

6
Industry
Dream-catching is a craft. The queen's household actually functions.
7
Household
An orphan finds a guardian. He learns to be one.
4
Piety
Wonder, and a palace that still has duties.
8
Courage
The small girl and the gentle giant both go toward the eaters.
6
Republic
They appeal to a real authority instead of becoming vigilantes forever.
8
Temperance
Appetite is the other giants' whole character, and it is condemned.
7
Truth
He tells her the truth about what they eat.
8
Stewardship
A strong creature spends his strength on a child.

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Film · Prime Video · 1942

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Casablanca

68Worth an evening.

Keep it. A private wound is not a reason to sit out the fight.

The review

Rick's neutrality is a costume for a hurt. Ilsa did not leave for a whim, and the film is adult enough to say so without making either of them a villain of the heart. The letters of transit are a public good disguised as a plot device. When he gives them up, he is not choosing loneliness as a style. He is putting a marriage and a resistance ahead of a feeling that was real and is no longer his to spend.

Watch it with anyone old enough to understand a goodbye. Then refuse the poster version, where the love is the point. The love is the test. The point is that he gets on the right side of a war.