Film · Prime Video · 2017

Coco

Keep it. Remember the dead by name. Ambition that erases a family is the villain.

Miguel's hunger for a song is not the sin. The sin, in the story he uncovers, is leaving a child for a stage and letting the story be rewritten. The film's afterlife is folk theology, brightly made, and a house that believes differently should say what it believes rather than panic at the marigolds. The usable truth does not depend on the metaphysics. The dead are kept by memory that is specific. A picture on an ofrenda is not a brand. It is a person.

Watch it, and let the last song be about the great-grandmother, not about fame. If a child only wants the skeleton, you have not finished the movie.

The eight

Industry
7/10
Shoemaking is honored. Music is work too.
Household
9/10
The whole plot is a family remembering.
Piety
6/10
An honor of the dead that a Christian house can respect and also locate.
Courage
7/10
He risks the crossing for a name.
Republic
5/10
A family ban is a kind of law, and it is revised by the truth.
Temperance
6/10
Fame is refused as the highest good.
Truth
9/10
The hidden crime is a theft of memory and of songs.
Stewardship
9/10
It hands on the duty to say their names.

Live historicallySay the full name of one person your house does not talk about, kindly.

Film · Prime Video · 1995

Babe

Keep it. Vocation is not breed. Kindness gets the sheep to move.

Farmer Hoggett is a quiet man who bets his reputation on a pig. That bet is the film's courage, and it is not loud. Babe's method, asking rather than biting, is a picture of authority that does not need humiliation. The sheep are not props. The cat is a snob and the film knows it. There is a darkness under the charm, the way a farm is actually a place where animals die, and the story does not fully hide it.

A child can watch this and understand competence as a form of love. When Hoggett says the kind sentence to the pig, the room should be quiet. That sentence is worth more than a speech about believing in yourself.

The eight

Industry
9/10
The work of herding, practiced.
Household
7/10
An odd household that decides to keep him.
Piety
5/10
A farm reverence, almost biblical and never preachy.
Courage
7/10
He goes into the ring.
Republic
6/10
A community of animals with unjust rules.
Temperance
8/10
Gentle authority.
Truth
8/10
Politeness works because it tells the sheep the truth.
Stewardship
8/10
It hands on a way of leading without a bite.

Live historicallyLet someone unusual try the work, and judge them by the work.