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Film · 20th Century · 1944

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The Fighting Sullivans

66Worth an evening.

The grief is true, and the film still wants you to nod at five deaths like the nod was duty.

The review

I knew the telegram was coming, and the film knows you know. Five brothers from Waterloo, Iowa, insist on serving on the same ship. They die together when the Juneau goes down. What you watch is their childhood and their house, then the wire. I won't describe the sinking. The country knew the story was true. A house can watch it. I was glad they were boys before they were a headline.

It is also a wartime picture that asks you to accept the deaths. The courage is real. So is the ask. Afterward the Navy stopped letting brothers serve together, and that rule is the part I trust, because other families got something from it. Nodding at the telegram as the proper end of a good childhood is separate. I won't do it just because the house was shown with care. True grief, and a lesson in how to hold it.

Journal

Keep The Fighting Sullivans in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 66. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Temperance are the thin ones.

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.

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Tenzing

78 instead of 66

Tenzing is still a biography film, and it scores 78 instead of 66. What you gain is piety: He climbs Chomolungma as a presence owed reverence; the others mean to conquer a peak.

The eight

6
Industry
After an ordinary Iowa childhood, the shared ship is the work they demand.
9
Household
Five brothers and the house they grew up in are the life, not a backdrop.
4
Piety
Loyalty to each other never stops them, and the film does not want it to.
8
Courage
They risk each other, the thing they would miss, by insisting on one ship.
8
Republic
Waterloo sends them, and the Navy's later ban is the public answer.
4
Temperance
It asks you to accept the deaths, a want dressed up as steadiness.
8
Truth
The telegram is true, and the picture does not pretend the brothers came home.
6
Stewardship
Left for others is a Navy rule, beside a house the film asks you to offer.

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ParaNorman

66Worth an evening.

Fear faced by understanding, not by a spear. Good for a child who can take a ghost.

The review

Norman is bullied for a gift that is mostly the willingness to hear. The town prefers a mob and a story about a witch. The film's turn, that the cursed child was a frightened child and the curse was the town's, is the right turn. It does not ask you to pretend the dead are cute from the first minute. It asks you to stop the torch.

Some of the jokes are ruder than the fable needs. The fable holds. A house can watch it near Halloween and come out less eager to chant at the odd boy. That is a rare result for a cartoon with zombies.

Journal

Keep ParaNorman in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 66. 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

The Peanuts Movie

74 instead of 66

The Peanuts Movie is still a animation film, and it scores 74 instead of 66. What you gain is industry: He studies, he practices the dance, he does the assignment.