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Film · Warner Bros. · 1984

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The NeverEnding Story

56Watch it awake.

A bullied boy, a land eaten by despair, and that horse in the swamp still hurts.

The review

A boy bullied at school steals a book and reads himself into a land being eaten by nothing. The Nothing is despair, not a monster with a face. The empress needs a new name, and it has to come from a human child. That is the assignment. Not a battle. A reply.

People cry over the horse in the swamp because the loss is allowed to stay a loss. I would not sell this to a child as only a cute adventure. If they can stand a sad scene, sit with them and ask afterward what the Nothing was. Do not take a monster as the answer.

Journal

Keep The NeverEnding Story in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 56. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household 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

Willow

68 instead of 56

Willow is still a fantasy film, and it scores 68 instead of 56. What you gain is household: The whole plot is a household willing to expand by one.

The eight

3
Industry
A bullied schoolboy's act is reading, not a paid trade.
3
Household
The bullied boy steals the book and goes into the land alone.
7
Piety
Giving the empress a name is a refusal of despair.
7
Courage
He enters a land that can take the horse in the swamp.
6
Republic
A whole land needs one human child to answer for it.
6
Temperance
The Nothing is despair, and the story does not feed it.
6
Truth
He steals the book, then is asked to give a true name.
7
Stewardship
The task is to leave a named world, not an empty one.

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Avatar: The Way of Water

56Watch it awake.

The warning is the same as the first film. The water is not a warehouse either.

The review

The first film said a forest is not inventory. This one moves the same sentence underwater, and the sentence is still true. Jake's trouble is that the war he joined has children now, and a father who made himself a weapon does not get to retire from it when the next boat comes.

The spectacle is the product. Stay for the father who would rather the children learn the reef than learn his war, and notice the film cannot help spending them on the war anyway. Take the warning. Do not take the three hours of fire as the point.

Journal

Keep Avatar: The Way of Water in the record.