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Film · Warner Bros. · 1983

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The Right Stuff

73Worth an evening.

Watch it for nerve that is mostly skill, and stay long enough for the wives.

The review

The country wants these men on television. The film would rather stay with the ones still flying at the edge. Test pilots, then the first astronauts, and Yeager is the man who will not become a product. The wives are in it, which keeps the bravery from turning into a poster of single men. Courage here is competence. You feel the work in the cockpit more than the parade on the ground.

Show it to a teenager who thinks fame is the proof that a skill mattered. It is long, and some of the fun is how the noise gathers around the pilots. Under that, the marriages are actual lives waiting on whether the man comes down. I kept Yeager, still himself, and a country that got the footage it wanted without owning every man who did the flying.

Journal

Keep The Right Stuff in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 73. 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

A Man for All Seasons

89 instead of 73

A Man for All Seasons is still a drama film, and it scores 89 instead of 73. What you gain is piety: Faith is the center, and it is not a mood.

The eight

9
Industry
Test pilots and astronauts live by competence, and the film prefers that to the parade.
7
Household
The wives are in it, so the marriages are lives and not a cutaway.
4
Piety
Nobody is stopped by conscience; the standard is whether the flying is true.
9
Courage
They risk the edge of flight, and the courage the film trusts is skill.
8
Republic
The country wants the daring on television and still owes the men who do it.
7
Temperance
Yeager will not become a product, and the film sides with him against the parade.
7
Truth
The parade can lie; the film keeps saying the real thing is the flying.
7
Stewardship
The country gets its pictures, and at least one man is not spent as a product.

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Film · Prime Video · 1995

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Babe

73Worth an evening.

Keep it. Vocation is not breed. Kindness gets the sheep to move.

The review

Farmer Hoggett is a quiet man who bets his reputation on a pig. That bet is the film's courage, and it is not loud. Babe's method, asking rather than biting, is a picture of authority that does not need humiliation. The sheep are not props. The cat is a snob and the film knows it. There is a darkness under the charm, the way a farm is actually a place where animals die, and the story does not fully hide it.

A child can watch this and understand competence as a form of love. When Hoggett says the kind sentence to the pig, the room should be quiet. That sentence is worth more than a speech about believing in yourself.