03 of the eight
Piety
5
Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?
On Song Exploder, piety is a 5. In the middle. Neither the strength of the story nor the thing that fails it. Washington's Farewell treated religion and morality as supports a country cannot do without. We are not scoring a denomination. We are asking whether a soul is allowed to be real.
What it is
Washington's Farewell treated religion and morality as supports a country cannot do without. We are not scoring a denomination. We are asking whether a soul is allowed to be real.
A high mark
A soul is allowed to be real, and a person can be bound by it.
A thin mark
Reverence is only there to be exposed, or the story has no room for conscience at all.
What it is not
Not a denomination test. Quiet about church is not a failure. A cross in the shot is not a pass.
What to look for
- 1Watch whether conscience can stop a person, or whether it is only a style.
- 2Reverence can be quiet. It fails when it shows up only so the joke can land.
- 3Someone answers to more than appetite and the crowd, or nobody does.
- 4An honest believer is different from a cartoon drawn so you can despise him.