Film · Netflix · 2013
The Croods
69Worth an evening.
A father who loves his children by locking the door. Worth a family evening, then the talk about what the cave was for.
Pass it on
The review
Grug thinks the cave is love. Eep thinks the light is life. Both are trying to keep the family alive, and the film is honest that a father's fear can be a form of care and still be too small. When the ground breaks, the rule that saved them becomes the rule that would bury them.
Watch it with the children who will ask for it this weekend. Then ask what in your own house is a cave: a rule that once kept someone safe and now only keeps them in. The picture is fit for a family. It is not a sermon, and it does not need to be.
Journal
Keep The Croods in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 69. 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 69
Spirited Away is still a family film, and it scores 78 instead of 69. What you gain is industry: She earns the rescue by labor.
The eight
- 7Industry
They hunt, carry, and invent a way through. Work is how they eat.
- 8Household
The family is the unit. They argue and they do not split up.
- 5Piety
Wonder at a new world. No church. The cave is treated as the only safety.
- 8Courage
Leaving the cave, when staying would kill them, is the brave act.
- 6Republic
A band of one family learns it cannot be the only people left.
- 7Temperance
Adventure, not appetite. The fear is of the dark, not of missing a thrill.
- 7Truth
The father's rules are half true. The story lets the daughter be right too.
- 7Stewardship
A way of living is handed to the children, and then it has to change.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
Live Historic · The Croods · 69IMDb tt0481499
