Film · MGM · 1939
Pass it on
The Wizard of Oz
63Watch it awake.
The wonders are real. They are not home.
The review
Oz is the most famous distraction in American pictures, and the film is honest about it. The friends are good. The city is a show. The sentence at the end is that she wants the people who already knew her name.
A child can love the road and still hear the last line. Do not let the color convince the house that leaving is the story. Coming back is the story.
Journal
Keep The Wizard of Oz in the record.
The Bailey house filed 72. The wonders are real. They are not home. The youngest wanted the witch again. We left it off the second night.
Live Historic number 63. 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
Frozen II
74 instead of 63
Frozen II is still a family film, and it scores 74 instead of 63. What you gain is stewardship: The future of two peoples is the stake, not a wedding.
The eight
- 5Industry
The farm is work. Oz is a spectacle that does not ask her to keep anything.
- 8Household
Aunt Em and the farm are the destination, not the obstacle.
- 4Piety
Magic stands in for conscience. The wish is still a plain one.
- 7Courage
She faces the witch for her friends, not for a crown.
- 6Republic
The city is a fraud with a good man behind the curtain. The friends were already a company.
- 7Temperance
The emerald city glitters and does not feed her.
- 7Truth
The wizard has been lying. He says so, and the lie stops being the power.
- 6Stewardship
What she brings home is the want to be there. The shoes do not build the farm.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
Live Historic · The Wizard of Oz · 63IMDb tt0032138
