Movie · Netflix · 1982

Annie

An orphan who wants a family, not a career. The songs are big. The want is the right want.

Annie wants to be someone's child. The film surrounds that want with a great deal of Broadway, and the want survives it. The orphanage is not a joke. For a child old enough for the drunk and the danger, this is a yes, watched together. Do not confuse it with a later remake that aims the same songs at a showcase. The 1982 film still knows the prize is the house.

The eight

Industry
5/10
The orphanage is work done badly. Daddy Warbucks's money is not the moral, the household is.
Household
8/10
The story ends when a child has parents. That is the correct ending.
Piety
4/10
Hope is sung at full volume. It is hope for a home, not for a crowd.
Courage
6/10
She is brave in a building that is not safe, and she is a child, which the film remembers.
Republic
5/10
A city in a hard decade. One house decides to be responsible.
Temperance
5/10
The musical is excessive. The wish is not a product.
Truth
6/10
The orphanage is cruel and shown as cruel.
Stewardship
8/10
What is handed on is a daughter with a name and a roof.

Live historicallyIf you watch it, talk about the orphanage, not about the mansion.

Movie · Disney+ · 2017

Beauty and the Beast

The old promise, in a larger dress. The promise still holds. Prefer it to nothing, not to the tale.

This is the live-action enlargement of the 1991 film, which is itself an enlargement of Beaumont's tale. The part that is still true: Belle offers herself for her father, and she returns when she said she would. The beast's temper is the obstacle. The castle is a household under a curse, which is a picture of what a house becomes when the master is a child. The padding — more backstory, more spectacle — does not improve the promise. It delays it.

A family can watch it. If you know the shorter tale, say that the tale is stricter and better. If you do not, take the two facts: she went in his place, and she came back on time.

The eight

Industry
4/10
A village, a father who is an inventor. The castle does not work so much as it waits.
Household
8/10
A daughter takes a father's punishment. The ending is a household or it is nothing.
Piety
4/10
A curse as moral consequence. Enchantment does the preaching.
Courage
7/10
She rides back. He lets her go, which is the other bravery.
Republic
4/10
A provincial town that gossips and a prince who ignored it.
Temperance
6/10
His rage is the excess. Gaston's vanity is the other.
Truth
7/10
She said she would return. The story still turns on that.
Stewardship
7/10
A prison becoming a house, if he can be taught.

Live historicallyKeep one promise this week that nobody is going to remind you about.