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Film · Focus · 2018

Won't You Be My Neighbor?

Won't You Be My Neighbor?

86Living historically.

The rare film that can make a house kinder in the same week. Watch it, then turn the television off and do what he did.

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The review

There is almost no dirt in it, and that is not because the filmmakers failed to look. The work was the work. He took a mass medium built to agitate a child and used it to slow a child down. He spoke about assassination, about skin, about fear, in a voice that assumed a small person could bear the truth if an adult stayed in the room.

A family should watch it. Then the charge is immediate and annoying, which is how you know it is real. Speak to the child in your house, today, without a joke deflecting it, and tell them you are glad they are here. The sweater is not the point. The unhurried sentence is the point.

Journal

Keep Won't You Be My Neighbor? in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 86. Yours can differ.

The glance

Courage is the thin one.

  1. 8Industry
  2. 8Household
  3. 9Piety
  4. 7Courage
  5. 8Republic
  6. 10Temperance
  7. 9Truth
  8. 10Stewardship

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.

The eight

  1. 8
    Industry

    He treated a children's program as a craft and a discipline, for decades.

  2. 8
    Household

    The neighborhood is a picture of a safe house. His own work was the long attention.

  3. 9
    Piety

    The theology is in the method: a child is a neighbor, not a market.

  4. 7
    Courage

    He said the hard thing, including about death and divorce, without raising his voice.

  5. 8
    Republic

    A public address to children that refused to flatter them or scare them for profit.

  6. 10
    Temperance

    The whole method is restraint. Silence is allowed on television.

  7. 9
    Truth

    He meant what he said to the camera, and the film does not find the secret cruelty.

  8. 10
    Stewardship

    What he handed children was a sentence: you are a person, and I am glad you are here.

Live historically

Sit with a child for fifteen minutes with no screen, and let them finish their sentence.

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Film · Film · 1946

It's a Wonderful Life

It's a Wonderful Life

85Living historically.

The household, the neighbor, the quiet no to a predator. Keep this one in the house.

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The review

George Bailey wants out, and the movie loves him for wanting a larger life, and then it makes the case that the larger life was the one he kept refusing to abandon. Potter is what industry looks like with no neighbor in it. George is what it looks like when a man uses a small institution to keep ordinary people from being owned.

It is sentimental. Sentiment is not a sin when the facts underneath are solid. The facts are solid. A good name, a wife who tells the truth, a house full of drafty rooms and children, a town that shows up with cash because you showed up for years. If the irony of the age has gotten into your joints, watch this in December or in June and let it offend you back to life.

Journal

Keep It's a Wonderful Life in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 85. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry is the thin one.

  1. 8Industry
  2. 9Household
  3. 8Piety
  4. 8Courage
  5. 9Republic
  6. 8Temperance
  7. 8Truth
  8. 10Stewardship

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.

The eight

  1. 8
    Industry

    A building and loan is unglamorous work and it saves streets.

  2. 9
    Household

    Marriage, children, a drafty house. The domestic life is the victory.

  3. 8
    Piety

    Prayer is not a joke here. A man at the end of himself asks.

  4. 8
    Courage

    The bravest thing he does is stay, and refuse Potter, and not jump.

  5. 9
    Republic

    A town of neighbors is the whole theory of the republic in one square.

  6. 8
    Temperance

    Despair is faced. It is not the aesthetic.

  7. 8
    Truth

    His word is the business model.

  8. 10
    Stewardship

    Posterity is the plot: the lives that exist because he did not leave.

Live historically

Put a small amount of money or time into something local that keeps a neighbor from being cornered. A shop, a parish, a family two doors down.

Where to watch

Finding the page.

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The next title is the one nearest what this house keeps, then the measure where it is thin. Nothing here is a crowd. It does not leave this device.

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