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Film · Universal · 1954

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The Glenn Miller Story

66Worth an evening.

I put it on for the tunes, and the plane still doesn't come back.

The review

I put this on for the music, and the music is the real work. James Stewart plays a bandleader who can hear a sound and cannot yet get an orchestra to play it. The marriage is in the story. It is not a bow at the end. You stay for the numbers, and they earn the stay.

The war takes the band overseas. The plane does not come back. The film does not hide that. What is left is the music, and a household that has to keep going without him. A teen can sit with it. I was grateful they treated the death as a fact instead of a finish.

Journal

Keep The Glenn Miller Story in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 66. 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

The Sound of Music

74 instead of 66

The Sound of Music is still a music film, and it scores 74 instead of 66. What you gain is piety: The abbey is real, not a postcard, when it counts.

The eight

8
Industry
He builds an orchestra around a sound he can hear and not yet play.
7
Household
The marriage is in the story, not a bow added at the end.
4
Piety
Going to war is duty. Conscience is not what the film argues.
7
Courage
He takes the band overseas, and the plane does not come back.
6
Republic
The band goes because the country is at war, not for a tour.
6
Temperance
The job is one sound, chased until it exists, not the next fad.
7
Truth
The death is told straight. Nobody pretends the plane landed.
8
Stewardship
The music is what remains after the man is gone.

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Film · Prime Video · 2012

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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.