It's a movie about the teacher again.
The story takes place in modern times and changes according to real people and real events.
The public high school in Long Bay, an immigrant community in the United States, has a new female teacher with aspirations but no experience. She wants to teach the children the Odyssey and let the children read Anne's diary. However, since the first day she entered this school, she has discovered that everything is not as simple as she imagined:
Long Bay is a concentrated expression of all conflicts and horrors in LA. Immigrants from different races and regions gather here. Discrimination, crime, and bloodshed have eroded the hearts and minds of young people from an early age. Every child here has a different and miserable childhood, but the end result is surprisingly similar: hatred, revenge. Almost every child in the school has a gun. White people do it for self-protection, and people of color do it—as they say “fight”.
Many people died. Many children died. Many people witnessed their friends fall behind the gunfire. White people in Long Bay dared not go out at night, and so did people of color.
This is what the new female teacher faces. She decided to change because she wanted to do her job well. But she knew that what she wanted to change was not only the violence itself, but also the wounded soul behind the violence.
She used her diary to open the wounded and fragile hearts of these children. It is also through these diaries that children begin to think and feel life.
These children are actually very simple and simple. All female teachers have to do is to guide them with their hearts and influence them with love and perseverance. Although she encountered numerous obstacles from funding and the school, her efforts have achieved impressive results. She melted the fears in the children in a rough but not difficult way, and instilled courage, justice and love. Finally, as everyone expected, the children's trust, respect and love were obtained. At the end of the film, the female teacher who was born with a calf made an exception to teach her children to graduation from high school (generally inexperienced teachers are not allowed to teach seniors and seniors). She compiled the children’s diaries into a book and named it "The Freedom" Writers Diary".
Now, this female teacher, Mrs.G, has established a foundation called "Freedom Writer" across the United States to promote education.
Personally, Hilary Swan is very suitable for this role. Not beautiful, but there is a kind of subdued persistence and tenacity. Especially when the husband of the female teacher in the film can't stand his wife and leave her at work, Hilary Swan does a good job-not crying in exaggeration, but struggling to let the blood flow. It’s just that the director seems to have no intention of highlighting this segment, or it’s not done well, the sadness of the female teacher is not very clear, otherwise, this will be a highlight of the film.
All in all, "Street Diary"-"Freedom Writer" has ups and downs, climaxes, and highlights. During the viewing process, there were indeed moments of being moved. It's just that these moments always flash by, slightly pale and weak, like a fleeting meteor, many but not bright enough to leave a particularly deep impression. This should be the biggest shortcoming of the film.
But, having said that, "Freedom Writer" is indeed an exciting and good movie, and I gave it 7 points without hesitation!
The last thing to say is that there are a lot of R&B and Hip-hop music in this film, which is quite appropriate for the film, very good~
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