Godzilla

78Worth an evening.

Don't cheer the streets. Stay for the man who dies so the weapon dies too.

The review

Don't cheer the destruction. A creature comes out of the sea after nuclear tests and breaks a city. A scientist has a weapon that could stop it and refuses to leave that weapon for the next war. He dies with it. The American recut added scenes. The weapon and the refusal are still the point underneath them.

This is not a rally. The city is people. He could have saved them and armed the next war, and he will not. I respect that more than I enjoyed the noise. What remains is ruin, and a weapon that was not passed down. If the room starts rooting for the destruction, they have the wrong film. Shut it off.

Journal

Keep Godzilla in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 78. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household is the thin one.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

The eight

8
Industry
He makes a weapon that would work, and that is why he withholds it.
3
Household
A city full of people, and no marriage or child is the life followed.
9
Piety
Conscience stops him from leaving the weapon for the next war.
9
Courage
He dies with the device rather than live to see the next war own it.
9
Republic
He owes the next city more than he owes this victory.
8
Temperance
He puts the weapon down, and the film asks you not to cheer the ruin.
8
Truth
The tests bring the creature, and his refusal to bequeath the weapon holds.
8
Stewardship
A broken city remains, and the weapon is not left for the next war.

Where to watch

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Film · Prime Video · 2001

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Spirited Away

78Worth an evening.

Keep it for an older child. Greed is the danger. Remembering who people are is the rescue.

The review

Chihiro does not win by being chosen. She wins by showing up to a hard, humiliating job and by not forgetting her parents when forgetting would be easier. The bathhouse is a brilliant picture of an economy that eats. No-Face is what a loneliness becomes when it is fed every thing it points at. Yubaba steals names because a person without a name will work forever. The film is pagan, crowded, and more morally serious than most films that advertise a lesson.

Not for the very small. Right for a child who is ready to hear that appetite can change a face, and that work and memory can change it back.

Journal

Keep Spirited Away in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 78. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety is the thin one.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

It's a Wonderful Life

85 instead of 78

It's a Wonderful Life is still a fantasy film, and it scores 85 instead of 78. What you gain is piety: He prays when he is out of answers.