Film · Prime Video · 1994
Thumbelina
The want is home. The songs are of their decade. A child can watch it; do not let the romance be the moral.
Thumbelina is kidnapped into other people's plans: a toad who wants a wife for her son, a mole who wants a pretty thing for a dark house, a beetle who wants a novelty. She is polite and then she is gone, which is the right order. The mother on the other end of the story is the point the songs keep trying to replace with a prince. The prince can stay in the picture. He is not the windowsill.
Don Bluth's drawing is more serious than the plot. The cold, the animals, the smallness are felt. Say, if you watch it, that a girl is not a prize for the next creature who finds her charming. Then name the place in your own house that a lost child should be able to aim at.
The eight
Industry
3/10
No trade. A journey.
Household
7/10
The plot is a child separated from her mother.
Piety
3/10
Wonder, and a fairy court that is not a faith.
Courage
6/10
She keeps refusing the houses that would keep her.
Republic
4/10
Creatures with their own interests. Little law.
Temperance
6/10
The beetle, the mole, and the toad are appetites. She does not join them.
Truth
6/10
Home is specific. The offers are flattery.
Stewardship
7/10
Getting back is worth more than the wedding the poster prefers.
Live historicallyAsk a child what they would walk back to if they were taken somewhere glittering.
