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Film · DreamWorks · 2005

Madagascar

Madagascar

44Leave it.

Friendship is the point. The lion's hunger is the interesting fear. A light family film.

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The review

A lion in a zoo believes he is a friend who likes steak brought on a plate. The island tells him he is a predator. The film is mostly a joke, and the joke is good when it stays on that fear: that you might harm the people you love because of what you are, and that love means warning them.

A child can watch it. The dancing is the advertisement. The moment he sends them away is the story. If they have seen it four times, they have seen it enough.

Journal

Keep Madagascar in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 44. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Piety and Republic are the thin ones.

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

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

Sing

56 instead of 44

Sing is still a animation film, and it scores 56 instead of 44. What you gain is industry: Rehearsal, a payroll, a building.

The eight

  1. 3
    Industry

    They have been provided for. The wild asks them to feed themselves, and they cannot.

  2. 6
    Household

    Four friends refuse to leave each other, including the one who might eat them.

  3. 2
    Piety

    No creed. The wild is a punch line and then a fact.

  4. 5
    Courage

    He tells them to go when he cannot trust his own hunger.

  5. 3
    Republic

    A zoo is a comfortable regime. The island is not yet a people.

  6. 5
    Temperance

    The jokes are silly and not mean, mostly.

  7. 6
    Truth

    It tells the truth that comfort can be a cage, and that a nature is not a costume.

  8. 5
    Stewardship

    What they keep is the friendship, even when nature makes it hard.

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Ask why the lion told his friends to leave, and whether that was kindness.

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Film · Prime Video · 1951

Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland

44Leave it.

Nonsense is funny until it is a government. She comes back. Good.

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The review

Wonderland is a place where authority is a temper: a queen who executes, a tea party that never ends, a caterpillar who sneers. Alice is polite and then she is done. The film's best moment is her refusal to take the queen's court as a real court. Curiosity brought her in. Judgment takes her out.

A child can enjoy the jokes. Say that the jokes are not a model of how a house or a school should run. A world that changes the rules to watch you stumble is not a wonder. It is a bully with a teapot.

Journal

Keep Alice in Wonderland in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 44. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Republic are the thin ones.

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

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

Peter Pan

56 instead of 44

Peter Pan is still a animation film, and it scores 56 instead of 44. What you gain is household: The ending is a return to parents, and her own future as a mother.

The eight

  1. 2
    Industry

    No work. A dream.

  2. 4
    Household

    She wants to get back to her sister and the bank.

  3. 2
    Piety

    None. Manners without substance.

  4. 6
    Courage

    She tells the queen the court is absurd.

  5. 4
    Republic

    A tyranny of cards. She will not play it as real.

  6. 5
    Temperance

    Curiosity without a limit is how she gets lost.

  7. 7
    Truth

    The rules are fake. She says so.

  8. 5
    Stewardship

    The good ending is the grass she started from.

Live historically

When a room makes no sense and calls that clever, leave.

Where to watch

Finding the page.

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