Film · Prime Video · 2008

WALL-E

Keep it. Stewardship with almost no speeches. The people have to stand up and go home.

WALL-E's love of the little things, a plant, a song, a cockroach, is not consumer cute. It is the last attention left on earth. The Axiom is a fair picture of a life that is all convenience and no weight: kind people who cannot walk, governed by a system that filed the return order away. The captain's decision to stand is the human climax, and it is played with the seriousness of a real command.

Children understand the plant. Adults should understand the chair. Watch it, then do not order something you could walk to get.

The eight

Industry
8/10
He does his job for centuries.
Household
6/10
A love of particular things, then a captain who takes responsibility.
Piety
5/10
Reverence for a living sprout.
Courage
7/10
The captain stands.
Republic
7/10
A public that has handed its life to a program.
Temperance
7/10
Appetite and ease are the dystopia.
Truth
8/10
The directive was buried. He reads it.
Stewardship
10/10
The plant is the charge.

Live historicallyTouch one patch of actual ground and know what lives there.

Film · Prime Video · 1995

Babe

Keep it. Vocation is not breed. Kindness gets the sheep to move.

Farmer Hoggett is a quiet man who bets his reputation on a pig. That bet is the film's courage, and it is not loud. Babe's method, asking rather than biting, is a picture of authority that does not need humiliation. The sheep are not props. The cat is a snob and the film knows it. There is a darkness under the charm, the way a farm is actually a place where animals die, and the story does not fully hide it.

A child can watch this and understand competence as a form of love. When Hoggett says the kind sentence to the pig, the room should be quiet. That sentence is worth more than a speech about believing in yourself.

The eight

Industry
9/10
The work of herding, practiced.
Household
7/10
An odd household that decides to keep him.
Piety
5/10
A farm reverence, almost biblical and never preachy.
Courage
7/10
He goes into the ring.
Republic
6/10
A community of animals with unjust rules.
Temperance
8/10
Gentle authority.
Truth
8/10
Politeness works because it tells the sheep the truth.
Stewardship
8/10
It hands on a way of leading without a bite.

Live historicallyLet someone unusual try the work, and judge them by the work.