Film · Prime Video · 1969

Frosty the Snowman

A small, old, kind half hour. No one is cruel for sport.

Frosty wants to survive the warmth and get a child back to her school. The magician is a fool who wants the hat. There is no second layer and there does not need to be. A snowman who is gentle with a girl, a rabbit who worries, a train, a greenhouse. The stakes are melt or not.

It will not form a soul by itself. It will not harm one. Put it on when the house wants twenty minutes of winter without a sermon or a sneak.

The eight

Industry
3/10
A walk north.
Household
5/10
He takes care of the girl.
Piety
3/10
A Christmas spell, lightly worn.
Courage
4/10
They keep going as he melts.
Republic
3/10
A town, a parade.
Temperance
6/10
The magician's greed is small and punished.
Truth
6/10
No one is lying about what he is.
Stewardship
5/10
Get the child home. Get the snowman to the cold.

Live historicallyKeep one old short that does not try to be a brand.

Film · Prime Video · 1951

Alice in Wonderland

Nonsense is funny until it is a government. She comes back. Good.

Wonderland is a place where authority is a temper: a queen who executes, a tea party that never ends, a caterpillar who sneers. Alice is polite and then she is done. The film's best moment is her refusal to take the queen's court as a real court. Curiosity brought her in. Judgment takes her out.

A child can enjoy the jokes. Say that the jokes are not a model of how a house or a school should run. A world that changes the rules to watch you stumble is not a wonder. It is a bully with a teapot.

The eight

Industry
2/10
No work. A dream.
Household
4/10
She wants to get back to her sister and the bank.
Piety
2/10
None. Manners without substance.
Courage
6/10
She tells the queen the court is absurd.
Republic
4/10
A tyranny of cards. She will not play it as real.
Temperance
5/10
Curiosity without a limit is how she gets lost.
Truth
7/10
The rules are fake. She says so.
Stewardship
5/10
The good ending is the grass she started from.

Live historicallyWhen a room makes no sense and calls that clever, leave.