The Wizard of Oz

71Worth an evening.

Home is the good. The wizard is a man behind a curtain. Keep it.

The review

Dorothy is not recruited for Oz. She is tried by it, and the trial ends when she would rather have the farm than the emerald city. That is a rare ending. Most fantasies punish the child who wants to leave the magic.

The scarecrow, the tin man, and the lion already had the thing they were shopping for. The wizard's gift is a diploma, a testimonial, and a medal. Worth noticing. Courage, mind, and heart are not purchased. They are used. The wicked witch is wicked. The film does not ask you to understand her into harmlessness. A house can watch this once a year and come out more loyal to its own kitchen.

Journal

Keep The Wizard of Oz in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 71. 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 71

Spirited Away is still a family film, and it scores 78 instead of 71. What you gain is industry: She earns the rescue by labor.

The eight

6
Industry
A farm is work. Oz is a spectacle that does not feed anyone.
8
Household
Aunt Em and the farm are the true destination, not the consolation prize.
5
Piety
Awe is everywhere. Worship is not. The wizard is exposed as a man.
8
Courage
She faces the witch to save a friend, then asks to go home.
6
Republic
The city is a court of humbug. The farm is a neighborhood.
7
Temperance
Wanting is tested against belonging. Wanting loses.
8
Truth
The curtain comes back. Power that will not show its face is a fraud.
9
Stewardship
The charge of the story is to get the child home unchanged in her loyalties.

Where to watch

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Black Panther

71Worth an evening.

A nation owes the people it hid from. A king still has to keep the nation.

The review

Killmonger is not a twist. He is what happens when a nation saves itself and leaves a child in the other place. T'Challa's answer is not to hand him the weapons. It is to stop pretending the border was innocent, and still not to burn the country down to pay for it.

Watch the argument, not only the suit. A house can ask the same question at a smaller size: whom did we leave outside, and what will we open without giving the place away.

Journal

Keep Black Panther in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 71. 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.

The eight

7
Industry
Wakanda's craft is the point. The metal is not a magic trick. Someone mined it and someone refused to sell it.
7
Household
A father, a sister, and a cousin. The wound is a child who was not brought home.
6
Piety
The ancestors are treated as a court he has to face, not as a costume.
8
Courage
He fights for the throne and then changes the policy that made the fight.
8
Republic
A hidden country has to decide what it owes the world without becoming an empire.
6
Temperance
The combat is long. It is not the lesson. The lesson is the border.
7
Truth
The father's choice is told, and it does not stay noble once the son is in the room.
8
Stewardship
The end is an open door: the knowledge will be shared, and the country will still be kept.

Where to watch

Finding the page.

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