Story · A household shelf · 1911
Pass it on
The Secret Garden
73Worth an evening.
Neglect is the illness. Work in a garden, and a father who returns, are the cure.
The review
Mary Lennox arrives rude and useless. Colin Craven has been allowed to believe he cannot live. The garden has been locked since his mother died. None of that is fixed by a speech. It is fixed by going outside, by seeds, and by a father who finally walks into the room.
Read it when a house has gone stale. The instruction is practical. Open a door. Give someone a living thing to take care of.
Journal
Keep The Secret Garden 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 Christmas Carol
85 instead of 73
A Christmas Carol is still a story film, and it scores 85 instead of 73. What you gain is piety: The ghosts will not let him call his life a private matter.
The eight
- 7Industry
The garden is work. Martha and Dickon already know how to do it.
- 8Household
A shut-up house opens. A father comes back to his son.
- 6Piety
The 'magic' is attention and growth. Awe is real. A creed is not spelled out.
- 7Courage
Mary goes outside. Colin stands up. Both were used to refusing.
- 6Republic
A manor and a cottage. The children cross the line the adults keep.
- 8Temperance
Spoiling is the sickness. Appetite stops being the ruler.
- 7Truth
The locked garden and the hidden boy are secrets that have to be opened.
- 9Stewardship
A dead mother's garden is kept, then given to the children who will tend it.
Where to read
Finding the page.
Live Historic · The Secret Garden · 73IMDb
