The Green Pastures

44Leave it.

Black actors in a white author's Sunday-school heaven, and you say both first.

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The review

Black actors play heavenly figures and Bible stories, staged as a Southern children's lesson. It was popular. The actors are Black. The frame is a white author's. I made myself say both before I got pious about it, so the Sunday school would not turn into my speech. A parent should know that frame before a child sees it. I knew, and I still wanted to skip ahead.

Faith in the room of the film is not the frame around it. I could sit with the reverence they play and still refuse to pretend the author was one of them. The actors are not a joke. The frame is not a footnote. If a child watches, those two facts go first, then the picture. I was tired, and one sentence was all the teaching I had left in me.

Journal

Keep The Green Pastures in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 44. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Courage and Republic and Stewardship are the thin ones.

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

4
Industry
The labor is Black actors playing heaven and the Bible stories.
4
Household
Staged as a children's Sunday school, not as a marriage or a parent.
6
Piety
The faith played in the room is earnest, and it is not a joke.
4
Courage
Black actors carry heaven inside a frame they did not author.
4
Republic
It was popular, and the heaven is still a white author's frame.
5
Temperance
A Sunday-school lesson, not a reel pushing you toward the next thrill.
5
Truth
Both stand: Black actors, and a white author's Sunday-school frame.
3
Stewardship
A child inherits someone else's heaven unless a parent names the frame.

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Film · Prime Video · 1951

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Alice in Wonderland

44Leave it.

Nonsense is funny until it is a government. She comes back. Good.

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The review

Wonderland is a place where authority is a temper: a queen who executes, a tea party that never ends, a caterpillar who sneers. Alice is polite and then she is done. The film's best moment is her refusal to take the queen's court as a real court. Curiosity brought her in. Judgment takes her out.

A child can enjoy the jokes. Say that the jokes are not a model of how a house or a school should run. A world that changes the rules to watch you stumble is not a wonder. It is a bully with a teapot.

Journal

Keep Alice in Wonderland in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 44. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Republic are the thin ones.

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

Peter Pan

56 instead of 44

Peter Pan is still a animation film, and it scores 56 instead of 44. What you gain is household: The ending is a return to parents, and her own future as a mother.