The Ten Commandments

66Worth an evening.

Watch the 1923 brothers and the Red Sea, and don't call it the Heston picture.

The review

Cecil B. DeMille, 1923, not the 1956 Charlton Heston picture. An Exodus prologue, then a modern story of two brothers. One keeps the commandments. One breaks them, and the building he cheated on falls. A house can watch it. The Red Sea is the spectacle. The modern half is a sermon. A large gross is often printed near 4 million.

I stayed for the brothers more than the sea. He cheats at the work and the work comes down. That is a bill you can explain to a child without a lecture. The sea is why a crowd stayed. If someone starts describing the later film, stop and name the year.

Journal

Keep The Ten Commandments in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 66. Yours can differ.

The glance

Stewardship is the thin one.

What is left for the people who come after — a place, a craft, a name?

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

The eight

8
Industry
One brother cheats on a building, and that building falls.
7
Household
Two brothers split a modern story between keeping the law and breaking it.
8
Piety
One brother keeps the commandments; the other breaks them and is not spared.
5
Courage
Keeping the commandments is the quieter risk beside the Red Sea spectacle.
7
Republic
The cheated building is a broken duty to anyone who would have used it.
6
Temperance
The modern half is a sermon against the brother who will not hold back.
8
Truth
He cheats on the building, and the collapse is the bill for the lie.
4
Stewardship
The crowd keeps the Red Sea; the people in the story get a fallen building.

Where to watch

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ParaNorman

66Worth an evening.

Fear faced by understanding, not by a spear. Good for a child who can take a ghost.

The review

Norman is bullied for a gift that is mostly the willingness to hear. The town prefers a mob and a story about a witch. The film's turn, that the cursed child was a frightened child and the curse was the town's, is the right turn. It does not ask you to pretend the dead are cute from the first minute. It asks you to stop the torch.

Some of the jokes are ruder than the fable needs. The fable holds. A house can watch it near Halloween and come out less eager to chant at the odd boy. That is a rare result for a cartoon with zombies.

Journal

Keep ParaNorman in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 66. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry is the thin one.

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

The Peanuts Movie

74 instead of 66

The Peanuts Movie is still a animation film, and it scores 74 instead of 66. What you gain is industry: He studies, he practices the dance, he does the assignment.