Film · Prime Video · 2012
ParaNorman
Fear faced by understanding, not by a spear. Good for a child who can take a ghost.
Norman is bullied for a gift that is mostly the willingness to hear. The town prefers a mob and a story about a witch. The film's turn, that the cursed child was a frightened child and the curse was the town's, is the right turn. It does not ask you to pretend the dead are cute from the first minute. It asks you to stop the torch.
Some of the jokes are ruder than the fable needs. The fable holds. A house can watch it near Halloween and come out less eager to chant at the odd boy. That is a rare result for a cartoon with zombies.
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Industry
5/10
He treats the seeing as a task.
Household
6/10
A family that does not understand him, and a sister who comes anyway.
Piety
5/10
The dead are taken seriously. The mob's ritual is exposed.
Courage
8/10
He walks toward the person everyone else stones.
Republic
7/10
A town's panic is the villain.
Temperance
6/10
Fear is answered, not fed.
Truth
8/10
The witch story was incomplete, and he completes it.
Stewardship
8/10
It hands a child mercy before the pitchfork.
Live historicallyAsk who in your town is feared because no one asked what happened.