Class Movie reveiw

The role I played in the film was one of the gossip girls as well as the girlfriend (who u do not get to see clearly). The character who carded more about what happening socially than school. which was shown with us gossiping in the corner with each other. even though the three of us played small roles in the film they were still important. I believe they added to the setting of the class room. each one of us played a different role of the class, and each showed the different perspectives or outlooks on school. Next to us was the rebellious students who generally did not care about the material in school. then there were the smart kids, who did not contribute to the chaos of the class.

Our film demonstrated some of the different social groups found in school. it had a teacher who was tried to teach material that the students were not interested and unresponsive about. i think the message was that, students do not understand the value of school, and instead of making the best of it or taking advantage of what it has to offer they just ignore it. Our film was both different and similar from the other savior teacher films. In the other films like freedom writers the class room was a carnival. Those students were there because they felt like they had to be and they just cared about getting in and out of it. Everyone in the class each played a different role, but one thing all the students had in common was their disrespect for the teacher. Which was the case in our film as well. The bad boy, Ev and the others showed that they were not interested in the teacher, they did not care what he had to say. the reason: well because they did not see how in anyway it related to their personal life. Which was a re-occuring theme and characters we saw in most of the other movies we watched.

The big difference comparing our movie to the other typical teacher savior movies is the teacher failed. He worked at trying to get students to relate and interested in the topics, but was out of luck. and so our movie ended more like that of Dead poets society. except our teacher was no hero at all, because unlike dead poets society he was unable to change the students perceptive at all. Hence how the students in our movie continued on their lives unchanged after the teacher stormed out. which creates an overall sad, disturbing tone of the whole play. again similar to that of the Dead poets society.

And as a last point, i think their is a big gap between education and salvation in our schooling system. i have yet to find or have a teacher who tried to "enlighten" a class of mine. then again i am speaking for only about three schools, so there probably is a teacher out there who does have a great positive impact on students.

But when i think about it again....i guess in my opinion people can be saved in all sorts of ways though. So if you wanted to say that "saving someone" was just making them see in a new light then yes, there are plenty of teachers and students who have the power to do so. and IF that is the case then i myself can say i have been saved by one person or another.