Film · Prime Video · 1985

Back to the Future

A comic clock, and a real defense of how a family gets started. Keep it.

Marty McFly is a musician with a coward for a father and a disappointed mother, and the film sends him back to be the friend his father needed before he can be his son. The joke is a DeLorean. The stake is a photograph of siblings fading because a marriage might not happen. George has to hit someone, once, in public, for a woman. It is not a subtle beat and it is the right one.

The sequel-bait and the Libyan opening are of their decade. The center holds: a boy who sees his parents as people, and a father who becomes brave enough to deserve the house. Watch it with a teenager. Then tell the true version from your own street.

The eight

Industry
6/10
Doc's craft is invention. George's missing craft is courage at a lunch counter.
Household
9/10
The plot is the parents' courtship. The house depends on it.
Piety
3/10
A clock tower, not a creed.
Courage
8/10
George stands up. Marty goes back into a year that can erase him.
Republic
5/10
A small town with a bully who runs it.
Temperance
6/10
Biff is appetite with a car. He loses.
Truth
7/10
The parents are not myths. They are young and flawed and still the ones.
Stewardship
8/10
He spends the trip saving his siblings' existence.

Live historicallyAsk your parents one true story of how they met, and notice what it cost.

Film · Prime Video · 1995

A Little Princess

Keep it. Imagination here is a way of telling the truth about a person's worth, not an escape from the attic.

Sara's kindness in the attic is the film's argument, and it is not cheap because the film lets her be hungry. Miss Minchin worships money and calls it standards. The other girls learn which authority is real. There is a softness to the ending that a strict reading of the book might resist, and the softness is a mercy for a child audience. The picture to keep is the one where she gives the bun away.

A young house can watch this whenever someone has started ranking the children. Rank is the villain.

The eight

Industry
6/10
Servant work, done without becoming the role.
Household
7/10
A lost father, a made family of girls.
Piety
5/10
A sense that every child is a soul.
Courage
7/10
She stays kind without an audience.
Republic
5/10
A school as a small unjust state.
Temperance
7/10
Want, governed.
Truth
7/10
She tells a truer story than the headmistress.
Stewardship
8/10
The bun is the heirloom.

Live historicallyTreat the child with the least as if the story about them were true.