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Film · Warner Bros. · 1984

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The Killing Fields

59Watch it awake.

Remember the man who lived before you let the camps take the night.

The review

Say his name before you talk about the war. Dith Pran, a Cambodian colleague, stays with a New York reporter through the fall of Phnom Penh and then is left behind. He survives the camps. The film is a friendship and a failure to get a man out. The paper used his work. I am not going to list what the camps did. What I owe the story is the man who lived.

This is adult, and it is a bad choice if anyone wants a tour of suffering. The courage in it is survival, and the shame in it is a rescue that does not happen. Watch it with someone old enough to ask what a newsroom owes the person who got the news. A living man remains, and so does an institution that spent him. Hold the first harder than the second.

Journal

Keep The Killing Fields in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 59. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household is the thin one.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

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Glory

70 instead of 59

Glory is still a drama film, and it scores 70 instead of 59. What you gain is stewardship: It hands on the regiment, not the poster.

The eight

8
Industry
Reporting is the job, and the paper uses Pran's work while failing to get him out.
2
Household
Friendship carries the story; a marriage or a child is not the life here.
5
Piety
The conscience that should get Pran out fails, and the film does not excuse that.
8
Courage
Pran survives the camps after he is left behind in the fall of the city.
7
Republic
A colleague is owed more than a falling country or a newsroom ever pays.
5
Temperance
It is a friendship and a failure, not an invitation to catalogue the killings.
7
Truth
The promise to get a man out does not hold, and the paper's debt stays visible.
5
Stewardship
The man lives, which is not nothing, and the paper has already used his work.

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Film · Prime Video · 2004

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Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper

59Watch it awake.

Two girls, one duty. Better than the poster. Still a doll's film.

The review

The pauper works. The princess is being sold into a marriage to save a bankrupt court. The film treats that sale as wrong and the work as honorable, which is more than most pink posters manage. They help each other. The poor girl is not a moral lesson the rich girl consumes.

The songs are candy and the ending is a double wedding. Fine for a child who wants a dress and a plot. Say out loud that a real household is not saved by a secret twin. It is saved by the work the pauper already knew how to do.

Journal

Keep Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 59. 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

WALL-E

73 instead of 59

WALL-E is still a family film, and it scores 73 instead of 59. What you gain is stewardship: The plant is the charge.