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Film · MGM · 1946

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The Yearling

75Worth an evening.

The fawn eats the crop, they cannot keep both, and the loss is not hidden.

The review

Don't put this on because the fawn is sweet. A boy in the Florida scrub raises it, Gregory Peck beside him, and the fawn eats the crop the family needs. They cannot keep both. A child can watch it. I would let one watch only if I stayed through the loss and did not talk over it. The loss is the point, and it is not hidden.

I won't walk you through the choice. You already know they cannot keep both. A poor field is not a mood. It is dinner. The boy loves an animal that costs the house its food. Plenty of animal stories lie about that math. This one doesn't, which is why it hurts and why I trust it.

Journal

Keep The Yearling in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 75. Yours can differ.

The glance

Republic is the thin one.

Does anyone owe a neighbor, a law, or a town — or is every person out for themselves?

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

Consider this

It's a Wonderful Life

85 instead of 75

It's a Wonderful Life is still a drama film, and it scores 85 instead of 75. What you gain is republic: A town of neighbors is the whole theory of the republic in one square.

The eight

8
Industry
The crop in the scrub is the family's living, and losing it means no food.
9
Household
A boy and the family around him have to choose between his fawn and their food.
7
Piety
Love of the fawn does not get to overrule the crop the family needs.
8
Courage
Keeping the family fed means giving up the animal the boy will miss.
4
Republic
The duty is inside one scrub family, not a law or a neighboring town.
8
Temperance
The boy's want is refused because the fawn eats what they have to live on.
8
Truth
They cannot keep both, and the film does not hide the loss or soften it.
8
Stewardship
What is left is a crop the people can eat, not the fawn they loved.

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Film · Prime Video · 1957

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12 Angry Men

75Worth an evening.

Keep it. A room, a reasonable doubt, and the courage to be the first no.

The review

Eleven men want the afternoon back. The twelfth wants the testimony walked through, because a life is not a schedule. The film is a whole civics lesson in one sweatbox: prejudice with a smile, prejudice with a shout, and the slow work of looking at a knife and a train schedule until the story the state told no longer holds. Nobody is romanticized for being angry. The quiet man is not a saint. He is simply unwilling to be rushed into a killing.

A teenager should see this before they see another thriller about a genius detective. Justice here looks like staying in the chair. That is a picture this house can use.

Journal

Keep 12 Angry Men in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 75. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

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

Consider this

To Kill a Mockingbird

81 instead of 75

To Kill a Mockingbird is still a drama film, and it scores 81 instead of 75. What you gain is household: A father raising children in public.