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Film · Film · 1948

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I Remember Mama

74Worth an evening.

A matriarch who will not let the family be ashamed or careless. Gentle, and exact about money.

The review

This is the Scandinavian household after the sod house, in a city, still recognizable. Mama's authority is not a joke about immigrant mothers. It is competence. The aunt's snobbery is the threat: the temptation to be ashamed of the table you came from.

Watch it with children who can sit still. The lesson is the ledger and the refusal to be pitied.

Journal

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No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 74. 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 74

It's a Wonderful Life is still a drama film, and it scores 85 instead of 74. What you gain is piety: Prayer is not a joke here.

The eight

8
Industry
The household accounts are the drama. She knows where the money went.
10
Household
Mama is the center. The father works. The children are not the rulers.
5
Piety
Decency stands in for a sermon. It is a real decency.
6
Courage
Her courage is social and domestic: a hospital, a rich aunt, a daughter's pride.
6
Republic
An immigrant family learning a city without handing the city their self-respect.
8
Temperance
Thrift is love in this picture. Waste would be a betrayal.
8
Truth
The memories are allowed to be small. That is why they hold.
8
Stewardship
She is trying to hand the children a solvency and a backbone.

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Film · Film · 2005

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Sweet Land

76Worth an evening.

A small, exact film about a community's boundary and the work that makes them let her in.

The review

This is the German and Scandinavian shelf in one picture, and it is better than most films ten times its size. The town is wrong to shut her out and understandable in its fear. She is not a speech about tolerance. She is a woman who can work. The film knows that a people changes by harvest and marriage, not by a lecture.

Watch it as a household. It is quiet enough for a tired evening and serious enough to talk about afterward.

Journal

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