Film · Prime Video · 1988

Willow

The baby is the charge, not the prop. A good quest for a family that can take a witch and a battle.

Willow is not the chosen warrior. He is the person nearest the infant, which is a better qualification. The journey collects a rogue, a sorceress, and a war, and some of the magic is darker than a small child needs. The spine stays simple. An empire that hunts a baby is wrong. A farmer who keeps walking is right. Size is not the measure of the guardian.

Watch it with the lights up enough to talk. When it is over, the question is not who had the sword. It is who held the child when holding her made them a target.

The eight

Industry
7/10
A farmer pulled off his field into a harder job.
Household
8/10
The whole plot is a household willing to expand by one.
Piety
4/10
Prophecy and magic. The good is plainer than the lore.
Courage
8/10
He stays on the road.
Republic
6/10
An empire against a child.
Temperance
6/10
The quest is long and mostly governed.
Truth
7/10
The tyrant is a tyrant.
Stewardship
8/10
It hands on a picture of keeping the baby.

Live historicallyProtect the actual child in the room before you protect the adventure.

Film · Prime Video · 1942

Casablanca

Keep it. A private wound is not a reason to sit out the fight.

Rick's neutrality is a costume for a hurt. Ilsa did not leave for a whim, and the film is adult enough to say so without making either of them a villain of the heart. The letters of transit are a public good disguised as a plot device. When he gives them up, he is not choosing loneliness as a style. He is putting a marriage and a resistance ahead of a feeling that was real and is no longer his to spend.

Watch it with anyone old enough to understand a goodbye. Then refuse the poster version, where the love is the point. The love is the test. The point is that he gets on the right side of a war.

The eight

Industry
6/10
A cafe is a real business in a city of exiles.
Household
5/10
He honors a marriage that is not his.
Piety
4/10
Cynicism cracks. Little explicit faith.
Courage
8/10
He walks into the risk he had refused.
Republic
8/10
A occupied city, and a man who stops pretending it is only a nightclub.
Temperance
7/10
Feeling governed at the last minute.
Truth
8/10
Ilsa's reason is allowed to be true.
Stewardship
8/10
He hands the future to people who can use it.

Live historicallyDo one thing this week that helps someone you will not get credit for.