Witness

76Worth an evening.

The murder gets him there. The picture to keep is a barn, and a gun that does not belong.

The review

A boy from an Amish community sees a murder in a Philadelphia station, and a detective hides among them because his own city is not safe. That is the thriller. The picture that changes the night is the barn-raising: a people who still show up and build the same thing. The gun does not belong there, and the film knows it.

Teens can watch this. Small children do not need the murder. The detective is good at the job, and the job is what drags danger into a community that did not send for him. I left remembering the wall going up, and a weapon the movie had the sense to treat as unwelcome.

Journal

Keep Witness in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 76. 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

8
Industry
His detective work starts it, and a barn goes up by people who still know the labor.
7
Household
A boy is the witness, and the homes around him are a life, not a hideout set.
8
Piety
The gun does not belong among them, and the film refuses to pretend that it does.
7
Courage
He hides in their world and brings a city's danger into a place that did not ask.
8
Republic
A boy owes the truth of a murder, and a people still owe each other a building.
7
Temperance
Violence follows him in. The film keeps saying the weapon is the wrong thing to keep.
7
Truth
The boy saw a killing. Hiding him does not erase what he knows.
9
Stewardship
The barn-raising leaves a building for the people who raised it.

Where to watch

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Film · Prime Video · 1981

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Chariots of Fire

76Worth an evening.

Keep it. A Sabbath kept is not a small thing beside a gold medal.

The review

Abrahams runs against a snobbery that is real, and his pride is also real. Liddell runs as a form of praise, and when the heat is set on Sunday he will not budge. The film does not treat that as a neurosis. It treats it as a man who knows who he is when the committee is waiting. Competition is given its joy. It is not given the last word.

A house that thinks faith is a private hobby can watch this and be corrected without a lecture. The lecture is the calendar. Some hours are not for sale.

Journal

Keep Chariots of Fire in the record.