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Film · United Artists · 1969

Kes

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Item: Kes
Rating: 55
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55Watch it awake.

A boy trains a kestrel with a library book. The town does not make room for it.

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The review

A skinny boy in a Yorkshire mining town is bullied at school and at home. He takes a kestrel from a nest and trains it from a library book. The bird is the one thing that is his.

The school does not have room for it. The brother does not. It is a small film and it is a true one. Older children can watch it if someone is there for the ending, which does not rescue him into a speech. The book from the library is the hope. Say that. Then leave the room quieter than you found it.

Journal

Keep Kes in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 55. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Republic are the thin ones.

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.

Consider this

The Karate Kid Part II

68 instead of 55

The Karate Kid Part II is still a drama film, and it scores 68 instead of 55. What you gain is household: A dying father brings the teacher home.

The eight

5
Industry
A mining town. The boy does the patient work of training a hawk.
3
Household
Home is where he is bullied. Nobody there is keeping him.
4
Piety
The bird is the nearest thing he has to a reason to be careful.
7
Courage
He keeps at the training in a place that laughs at him.
4
Republic
The school is a public that has already decided he is nothing.
7
Temperance
Quiet. No appetite is being sold. The bird requires patience.
8
Truth
It does not pretend the town will make room. The book is the only help.
6
Stewardship
A library book and a wild bird. What he was trying to keep was alive.

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Film · New Line · 1984

A Nightmare on Elm Street

55Watch it awake.

The first one is a parents' secret and a girl who will not sleep. The sequels sold the joke.

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The review

People know the glove and the joke. That came later. This one is a dead killer in dreams, a street of parents who share a secret about how he died, and a girl who has to stay awake. The sequels turned him into a punchline. The first film is still the adults' lie.

Not for children. If a teenager is going to meet it anyway, put the secret in front of the monster. Sleep is the ordinary thing she would like to have, and she gives it up because the block will not say what it did. I would rather a house remember a girl who will not lie down on that pact than remember a quip. Leave the later ones off.

Journal

Keep A Nightmare on Elm Street in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 55. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

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

Consider this

Alien

66 instead of 55

Alien is still a horror film, and it scores 66 instead of 55. What you gain is industry: A towing crew with ranks and a quarantine rule, and the job is the plot.