Film · Walt Disney · 2018

Black Panther

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

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.

The eight

Industry
7/10
Wakanda's craft is the point. The metal is not a magic trick. Someone mined it and someone refused to sell it.
Household
7/10
A father, a sister, and a cousin. The wound is a child who was not brought home.
Piety
6/10
The ancestors are treated as a court he has to face, not as a costume.
Courage
8/10
He fights for the throne and then changes the policy that made the fight.
Republic
8/10
A hidden country has to decide what it owes the world without becoming an empire.
Temperance
6/10
The combat is long. It is not the lesson. The lesson is the border.
Truth
7/10
The father's choice is told, and it does not stay noble once the son is in the room.
Stewardship
8/10
The end is an open door: the knowledge will be shared, and the country will still be kept.

Live historicallyName one person this house has not made room for. Make a specific room, not a speech.

Film · Prime Video · 1939

The Wizard of Oz

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

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.

The eight

Industry
6/10
A farm is work. Oz is a spectacle that does not feed anyone.
Household
8/10
Aunt Em and the farm are the true destination, not the consolation prize.
Piety
5/10
Awe is everywhere. Worship is not. The wizard is exposed as a man.
Courage
8/10
She faces the witch to save a friend, then asks to go home.
Republic
6/10
The city is a court of humbug. The farm is a neighborhood.
Temperance
7/10
Wanting is tested against belonging. Wanting loses.
Truth
8/10
The curtain comes back. Power that will not show its face is a fraud.
Stewardship
9/10
The charge of the story is to get the child home unchanged in her loyalties.

Live historicallyTell a child the difference between a wish and a way home, then walk them there.