Film · Walt Disney · 2015

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

A soldier refuses an order. A father crosses a bridge he will not walk back. The rest is a story this house has already been told.

The part worth keeping is Finn, who was trained to kill and does not, and Han, who dies trying to bring a boy home. Those are old duties. The picture around them is a copy of a copy, and the First Order is an empire with a new coat of paint.

A child can watch the refusal and the bridge. An adult should not pretend the third Death Star is a new idea about a republic.

The eight

Industry
5/10
Rey keeps a wreck alive with her hands. The Resistance wins by inheritance, not by a trade.
Household
6/10
Han goes to Ben because he is the father. Leia is still the wife who sent him.
Piety
4/10
The Force is a creed again. It is also a bloodline reveal.
Courage
8/10
Finn drops the rifle. Han walks out unarmed. Both cost.
Republic
5/10
A republic has already been shot from the sky. The substitute is another small band of heroes.
Temperance
5/10
The destruction is large and quick. It does not linger on the dead city.
Truth
5/10
It tells the truth that a son can choose the wrong father. It hides the new war inside an old film.
Stewardship
6/10
A saber is handed to a girl who did not ask for the legend. The question is whether she will be a person or a sequel.

Live historicallyAsk someone in the house which order they would not follow, and what it would cost them this week.

Film · 20th Century · 2009

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The land is not a warehouse. The sermon is right. The body he borrows, and the war that follows, are the part to hold lightly.

A corporation will burn a place for a rock, and the film is not shy about naming that. That is the line to keep. Jake Sully's answer is to become the people he was sent to betray, and then to lead their war, which is a thinner answer than the warning.

Watch it for the warning. Do not take the blue body as a permission to throw your own life away for a feeling of belonging.

The eight

Industry
5/10
The scientists do a job. The mine does a job. The story respects only one of them.
Household
5/10
He takes a mate and a place among her people. He left a twin's life to do it.
Piety
6/10
Eywa is a real claim in the story: a world that is owed something. It is not a church, and it is not nothing.
Courage
6/10
He changes sides in public, at the cost of the unit that carried him.
Republic
4/10
The company is a private army. The people have a chief and no neighboring law.
Temperance
3/10
The last hour is a battle the camera loves. The moral arrives as an explosion.
Truth
7/10
It says plainly that a quarterly metal is not worth a home. The scientist is the one who says it first.
Stewardship
8/10
The whole plot is whether a forest is left for the people who live in it.

Live historicallyName one thing this house uses that was dug out of someone else's ground. Decide whether the use is worth it.