WarGames

69Worth an evening.

A kid finds a war computer that thinks it is playing, and tic-tac-toe is the whole lesson.

The review

The ending is a child's game, and it is the most serious minute in the film. A high-school boy dials what he thinks is a game company and reaches a defense computer that wants to play global thermonuclear war. He and a friend have to show adults that the machine does not know a game from a launch. Tic-tac-toe has no winner. That is the proof.

I would watch it with a teenager who admires getting in. The cleverness is not the dialing. The cleverness is making a room of adults see that their system was built to find a win, and a win here is the end of the country. Stay through the last game. If you stop at the break-in, you kept the prank and threw away the warning.

Journal

Keep WarGames in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 69. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household is the thin one.

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.

The eight

6
Industry
Adults run a defense system that cannot tell a drill from a launch.
3
Household
A friend helps him; no parent or child is the life being kept.
7
Piety
He has to make adults see that a win here would end people.
6
Courage
Two kids carry the truth to adults who can still order a launch.
9
Republic
A defense computer owes the country a stop between a game and a war.
8
Temperance
Tic-tac-toe is the lesson that some games should not be won.
8
Truth
He thought it was a game company; the machine thinks war is play.
8
Stewardship
They leave a world unlaunched, and a game that teaches no winner.

Where to watch

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Film · Prime Video · 2003

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Finding Nemo

69Worth an evening.

Keep it. Love that will not let go must learn to let the child swim.

The review

Marlin's grief is not a joke, and his overprotection is not a mystery. The film understands both. Dory's forgetfulness is played for laughs and then revealed as a form of faithfulness: she keeps the errand when she cannot keep the facts. Nemo is not cargo. The last act works because the boy has to do the dangerous thing himself while the father trusts him.

A family that has been scared can watch this and talk about the difference between care and a grip. The ocean is big. The promise is not that it is safe. The promise is that you go.

Journal

Keep Finding Nemo in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 69. 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.

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Spirited Away

78 instead of 69

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