Film · 20th Century · 1951
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The Day the Earth Stood Still
76Worth an evening.
Fine beside a child, as long as you talk about the warning and not just the robot.
The review
My kid wanted the robot. I kept thinking about the widow and her son. A flying saucer lands in Washington. A visitor and a robot. He lives for a while with them, so the warning has a household in it. The earth will be destroyed if it carries its wars into space. A scientist is kind. A soldier is afraid. I have been both, on smaller news.
A child can watch it with a parent. The sermon is the point, so don't let the saucer be the only thing you mention at bedtime. That widow and her boy are a life, not a lobby he passes through. I don't need the threat to be likely. I need a film that says a limit out loud and lets a child hear an adult mean it.
Journal
Keep The Day the Earth Stood Still in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 76. 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.
The eight
- 6Industry
A scientist's kindness and a soldier's fear are the two jobs on offer.
- 7Household
He lives with a widow and her son, and that house is a real life.
- 8Piety
The message is a stop: take the wars no farther, or be ended.
- 7Courage
He walks into the soldiers' fear, and the widow takes him into her house.
- 9Republic
Washington is told the planet owes its neighbors a limit on war.
- 8Temperance
The sermon asks the species to put the next war down.
- 8Truth
He says what follows if the wars go up, and he does not soften it.
- 8Stewardship
A child can leave with a warning, and a world that still has time.
Where to watch
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