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Wicked

53Watch it awake.

The outcast is not the lesson. The campaign against her is. Watch the first half awake. It is not finished.

The review

Elphaba's offense is that she will not practice a cruelty the institution has defined as grown-up. Glinda's gift is to be adored, and the film is smart about how quickly adoration enlists itself. The animal teacher losing his voice is the scene to keep: a people made speechless so they can be used is not a metaphor you have to stretch to recognize.

It is half a story, and the half is lush. Older children can watch it. Tell them the second part is not required for the question, which is already on the table: when a room agrees on who the wicked one is, ask who is being silenced so the agreement can hold.

Journal

Keep Wicked in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 53. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Stewardship 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

Beauty and the Beast

59 instead of 53

Beauty and the Beast is still a musical film, and it scores 59 instead of 53. What you gain is household: A daughter takes a father's punishment.

The eight

6
Industry
A school, a sorcery that is studied, a government that writes the syllabus.
4
Household
A friendship that is the real plot. Families are mostly absences and a sister in a chair.
3
Piety
A wizard who is a fraud. The worship in Oz is a press office.
7
Courage
She refuses an order that would harm a creature who could not consent.
6
Republic
A public whipped up by a phrase. The film is interested in how a people is talked into a villain.
5
Temperance
The spectacle is the temptation. The moral is smaller than the emerald.
7
Truth
The official story is a lie, and the lie has authors.
4
Stewardship
This chapter ends before the bill. What she might leave is postponed, on purpose, for a ticket.

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A Christmas Story

53Watch it awake.

Keep it. Desire, a tangent-prone father, and a feast that survives the disaster.

The review

Ralphie's want is excessive and completely recognizable. The Old Man's pride in a hideous lamp is the adult version of the same excess, which is why the film is fair. The mother's management of both is the uncredited heroism. There is a meanness in a few of the jokes that a house can talk over. The Chinese Christmas dinner, when the turkey dies, is the scene that knows what a feast is: the people, relocated, still fed.

Watch it every year if you want. Skip any bit that is only a wince. Keep the pink bunny and the humility it requires.

Journal

Keep A Christmas Story in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 53. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Courage and Republic are the thin ones.

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

Back to the Future

65 instead of 53

Back to the Future is still a comedy film, and it scores 65 instead of 53. What you gain is courage: George stands up.