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Movie · Netflix · 2004

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13 Going on 30

58Watch it awake.

A fairy tale with the right moral: the impressive life was a bad trade.

The review

Jenna wants to skip the awkward years, and the film is kind enough to show her the bill. The woman she becomes has the clothes, the job, and a trail of people she treated as rungs. Waking up inside that woman is a useful fright for a thirteen-year-old, more useful than most films aimed at her.

Watch it with a girl in that age. Ask which of the thirty-year-old's things she would not want if it cost her the friend. The romance is soft. The regret is the point.

Journal

Keep 13 Going on 30 in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 58. 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

Groundhog Day

69 instead of 58

Groundhog Day is still a comedy film, and it scores 69 instead of 58. What you gain is industry: He learns actual skills.

The eight

5
Industry
A magazine job, and she is good at it. The film does not think that is the victory.
6
Household
What she lost was a friend, a parent, a street. Getting them back is the plot.
3
Piety
Wishing dust. No soul, except the regret.
6
Courage
She tells the truth at a cost to the career the wish built.
6
Republic
A neighborhood, a school, a magazine office that has been stealing.
6
Temperance
The adult life on offer is parties and betrayal. She refuses it.
7
Truth
The lesson is that becoming what you envied can be a confession.
7
Stewardship
She chooses the childhood she was in a hurry to spend.

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Movie · Disney+ · 2009

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Avatar

58Watch it awake.

A man changes sides for a people and a woman. The battle is enormous. The loyalty is the part that matters.

The review

Jake Sully arrives as a traitor in waiting and becomes a man who will not help strip a world that has taken him in. That turn is the story. The film tells it with a battle so large that a boy will remember the machines and forget the oath. Eywa is a religion, and the film means it. You can respect the seriousness without handing your children the firefight as their picture of courage.

Older kids, with you. Say what he owed the people who trusted him, and what the machines were for. The length and the violence are the reasons to wait.

Journal

Keep Avatar in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 58. Yours can differ.

The glance

Temperance is the thin one.

Is appetite shown and then put down, or are you being trained to want the next one?

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

Consider this

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

64 instead of 58

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is still a science fiction film, and it scores 64 instead of 58. What you gain is temperance: Fear is real, not a joke on the small.