Film · Universal · 1993

Jurassic Park

The science is a boast. The grandfather's job is to get the children out.

The enjoyment is the animals. The judgment is the man who thought a fence and a trademark were the same as responsibility. Grant does not save the world. He gets two children through a night that should not have existed.

Watch the wonder. Then say the sentence the film is too thrilled to underline: you do not make a life you will not keep.

The eight

Industry
7/10
The work of the lab is real. The failure is that no one will answer for what the work makes.
Household
6/10
The children are not props. Getting them off the island becomes the only adult task.
Piety
5/10
Life is treated as a force. No one is asked whom they answer to for making it.
Courage
7/10
People go back into the park for a child. That is the courage. The teeth are the weather.
Republic
5/10
An island with no law but a fence. The fence was the whole republic, and it fails.
Temperance
6/10
Wonder is fair. The film does not ask you to want the next tooth.
Truth
7/10
Hammond's park is a sales pitch about control. The pitch is false and the film says so.
Stewardship
3/10
They made living things they would not feed, fence, or answer for. The island is the bill.

Live historicallyName one tool this house uses that we do not know how to put down. Decide who answers for it.

Film · Prime Video · 2005

Corpse Bride

A vow is a real thing. The film knows it, then spends too long in the underworld's party.

Victor's trouble starts because he treats the words of a marriage as a rehearsal he can mutter in a wood. The dead hear him. That is the right metaphysics for a comedy: a vow is not a draft. Emily is pitiable and she is also wrong to hold a living man to a mistake. The film lets her release him. That release is the decent ending.

The land of the dead is more fun than the land of the living, and the living wedding is a transaction between anxious parents. Count that. A marriage in this story is saved by mercy, not by the party downstairs. Watch it with older children. Do not let the skeletons outvote the vow.

The eight

Industry
5/10
A pianist, a wedding as a contract. Work is mostly nerves.
Household
6/10
Marriage is the subject. The parents treat it as a merger.
Piety
5/10
The dead have a claim because words were spoken. Then the claim is surrendered.
Courage
6/10
He tells the truth and goes back upstairs.
Republic
4/10
The town is a set of grasping families.
Temperance
6/10
The underworld's joke is appetite. He does not stay for it.
Truth
8/10
A mistaken vow is confessed, not hacked into a happy theft.
Stewardship
6/10
He returns to a living marriage. She lets the living go.

Live historicallySay your promises out loud before you make them, and only to the living person you mean.