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Film · Tri-Star · 1986

Labyrinth

Labyrinth

71Worth an evening.

She wished the baby away, and the maze is her having to take the wish back.

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The review

She wishes her baby brother away to a goblin king, and the wish counts. The film does not treat that as a cute start. The wish is the wrong. The maze is the repair. She walks it because he cannot bring himself back, and she does not get to keep the glamorous king and the baby.

That limit is what I would pause on with a teenager. The story will not let the enchantment and the child be the same prize. She has to undo the sentence she said. If you only stay for the maze and the king, you missed the part where a brother is a life and not a prop she was free to spend.

Journal

Keep Labyrinth in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 71. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry is the thin one.

  1. 3Industry
  2. 9Household
  3. 8Piety
  4. 8Courage
  5. 5Republic
  6. 8Temperance
  7. 8Truth
  8. 8Stewardship

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

Spirited Away

78 instead of 71

Spirited Away is still a fantasy film, and it scores 78 instead of 71. What you gain is industry: She earns the rescue by labor.

The eight

  1. 3
    Industry

    The work is the walk through the maze, not a paid job.

  2. 9
    Household

    A baby brother is the life she wished away and must bring back.

  3. 8
    Piety

    The wish is named as the wrong, and she is not let off it.

  4. 8
    Courage

    She gives up the glamorous king in order to bring the baby back.

  5. 5
    Republic

    She owes the child, not a crowd and not a kingdom.

  6. 8
    Temperance

    She cannot keep both the glamorous king and the brother.

  7. 8
    Truth

    A spoken wish comes due, and only the walk pays it back.

  8. 8
    Stewardship

    What she brings home is the baby, not the goblin court.

Live historically

Pause on the wish and ask what she is not allowed to keep when the maze ends.

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Film · 20th Century · 1945

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

71Worth an evening.

Love the father if you want, and still admit the mother is the one keeping them fed.

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The review

The father is easy to love, and that is the trap the mother lives beside. A girl in a Brooklyn tenement loves a man who drinks and dreams. She depends on a mother who works and is hard because someone must be. He is not a villain and not a model. The girl's schooling is the hope. From Betty Smith. A house can watch it, including an older child who can hear about a drinker without copying him.

I know that split, the charming one and the one who will not let the rent slide. The picture keeps both of them human. Don't turn him into a sweet lesson, and don't scold her for the face she has after work. What grows is the girl's chance at school, not a prettier story about his dreams. That is enough reason to leave it on.

Journal

Keep A Tree Grows in Brooklyn in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 71. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety is the thin one.

  1. 8Industry
  2. 9Household
  3. 5Piety
  4. 7Courage
  5. 6Republic
  6. 6Temperance
  7. 8Truth
  8. 8Stewardship

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 71

It's a Wonderful Life is still a drama film, and it scores 85 instead of 71. What you gain is piety: Prayer is not a joke here.

The eight

  1. 8
    Industry

    The mother works, and that labor is why a tenement house still functions.

  2. 9
    Household

    Father, mother, and daughter are lives, and none of them is parked as a prop.

  3. 5
    Piety

    Her hardness tells the truth, and his drinking does not stop for love.

  4. 7
    Courage

    She keeps the hard house, which can cost her the easy love the father gets.

  5. 6
    Republic

    School is the public hope, and the block is the only town the girl has.

  6. 6
    Temperance

    He drinks and dreams, and the film will not let you take him as a model.

  7. 8
    Truth

    The dreams don't pay, and the mother's hardness is the account that does.

  8. 8
    Stewardship

    What she leaves the girl is schooling, not a softer myth about the father.

Live historically

Ask your kid which tenement parent they'd follow downstairs, then ask which one paid for school.

Where to watch

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Live Historic · A Tree Grows in Brooklyn · 71IMDb

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