Though the movie's emphasis on the efforts of a public school teacher is mostly secular and, hence, somewhat Romantic (see the note below), the movie keeps returning to moral issues. If Freedom Writers is a little too slick, it still contains enough heartfelt, provocative moments to become the first really good, entertaining movie of 2007 to be released. Gruwell's efforts generate conflict with the backward thinking of her department head and with her husband, who just wants to forget about the outside world when he is home. Slowly, the students start to change, but Mrs. So, she decides to rebuke their hatred of one another by teaching them about the Holocaust, having them read The Diary of Anne Frank and write about their own experiences in a daily journal. She realizes, however, that only one of the students knows anything about the Holocaust at all. Adolf Hitler's "gang" puts your gangs to shame, she tells her students. Gruwell angrily starts telling them about the horrors of racism through the historical prism of National Socialist Germany and its bigotry and genocide against the Jews. When one Hispanic student draws a racist picture of another student, Mrs. They aren't interested in her earnest attempts to discuss Homer, the Greek poet, or teach proper grammar. The white guy just wants to leave, and the Hispanics, blacks, and Asians have taken their gang warfare from the streets into the classroom. Gruwell is having trouble relating to her mixed freshman class of Hispanics, blacks, Asians, and one white guy. It's two years after the Los Angeles riots in 1992, and Mrs. The movie is a little too slick and polished for its own good, but its positive, uplifting moral messages and interesting characters and situations echo the good qualities of such true classics as Blackboard Jungle and Stand and Deliver.īased on a true story, the movie stars Hillary Swank as Erin Gruwell, a young teacher who accepts a position teaching freshman and sophomore English at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, Calif. G will face some other obstacles that will not let her down until she completes her proposal.Freedom Writers is one of those movies about an idealistic but strong-willed teacher who transforms a chaotic class of hardened inner city youths. G knows which is her responsability now, to make each of them reach their goals and make them believe in themselves no matter which situation they will face throughout their lives but Mrs. Therefore, she asks them to write in a notebook journal about their lives, and what they consider to make their teacher to know about them, all their different stories.Īccording to all her students' past, their lives, their stories, Mrs. G finds different dynamics and projects that show her students that they are not as different after all. This is a reality check for both, her and her students.Īs the year goes along Mrs. The last straw is broken when an incident happens and she compares it to the start of the holocaust. Everyone in her class is disrespectful and seems to be gangsters, and do not care about school or their futures at all. G, as her class calls her, is a first timer and she never really expects the type of class she is getting. The Freedom Writers Movie is based in a real story about a teacher (Erin Gruwell) who changed the lives of young people separated by their ethnicities.
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