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Film · Paramount · 1954

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White Christmas

66Worth an evening.

A house can watch it, and the inn is saved by work rather than by a speech.

The review

The song is older than the film, so a lot of the affection is for a tune. Two army singers become a nightclub act. Their general is failing at an inn in Vermont. They put on a show to save it, at Christmas. A romance for each man. A house can watch it, and I was grateful for a picture that did not need a speech beforehand. I was also a little tired of how neatly the two romances get handed out.

What earns the night is the show. They owe the general, and they pay him in work rather than in a feeling. An inn is a living. That matters more than the pairings, which a musical seems to think it owes the audience. If your December is already noisy, this will not quiet anybody. It will at least point the noise at a man whose second try is failing.

Journal

Keep White Christmas in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 66. Yours can differ.

The glance

Courage is the thin one.

Does anyone risk something they would miss, or is it only noise?

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

Consider this

The Sound of Music

78 instead of 66

The Sound of Music is still a musical film, and it scores 78 instead of 66. What you gain is household: A marriage in earnest, and seven children who are the stake of the last reel.

The eight

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Industry
Two singers use the act itself as the work that might save an inn.
6
Household
A romance for each man, and the general's failing inn is the home at stake.
6
Piety
They spend Christmas on the general who led them instead of on themselves.
5
Courage
They tie their act to an inn that is already failing and might fail anyway.
7
Republic
The debt is to their general, and the inn is a living in a small place.
6
Temperance
They give a show to save the inn rather than spend the season on themselves.
7
Truth
The loyalty to the general holds, and the show is a straight way to pay it.
8
Stewardship
If the show works, the inn is still there for the people who need it.

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Film · Prime Video · 2012

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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.