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Film · 20th Century · 2015

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The Martian

63Watch it awake.

Problem-solving as a vocation. The crew will not leave him. Worth an evening.

The review

A man is left on Mars and the film declines to make him a warrior. He is a botanist with a camera and a potato. The pleasure is the next correct step. That is a rare pleasure in this decade, and a useful one: a child who likes this film is being offered diligence, not a chosen-one feeling.

The agency is vain and then brave. The crew disobeys in order to keep a promise. Watch it as a household that is not related by blood deciding a person is not expendable. The jokes are fine. The potatoes are the moral.

Journal

Keep The Martian in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 63. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety are the thin ones.

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.

Consider this

Arrival

74 instead of 63

Arrival is still a science-fiction film, and it scores 74 instead of 63. What you gain is household: A mother who chooses the daughter knowing the death.

The eight

10
Industry
He does the math, the farming, the repair. Competence is the character.
3
Household
He is alone. The crew that left becomes his people again.
3
Piety
He jokes at the sky. The reverence is for a true problem, not a god.
8
Courage
He keeps working on the day the numbers say he dies.
6
Republic
An agency tells the truth late, then spends itself on one citizen.
7
Temperance
The film likes a solved problem more than a speech.
7
Truth
The science is the point, and the film does not cheat it for a monster.
6
Stewardship
What he wants to return to is a world that still tells the truth about facts.

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Film · Prime Video · 2005

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

63Watch it awake.

The punishments are the old book. The factory is colder than the 1971 film. Read it that way.

The review

Charlie is still the child who has a family and almost nothing else, and the ticket is still a test the other children fail in public. Willy is stranger here, and the flashbacks make his oddness a wound rather than a mystery. That is a choice. It explains him. It also risks teaching that genius is a loneliness the world should indulge. The book did not ask for that much sympathy.

Watch it if the house already knows the story and can say which child is which. The gum, the television, the greed, the spoiled demanding: those four are the lesson, and they are still true. Do not come away wishing to live in the factory. Come away glad Charlie had a grandfather who would go with him and a family to bring the prize home to.

Journal

Keep Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in the record.