Freedom writers literally means freelance writers, but I prefer another translation: Street Diaries. This is another American street, a hidden America.
Irene became a teacher at Wilson High School. She did not expect to take over a class full of problems. Most of the children came from low-level minority families, gang-like, ignorant, and hated whites. However, behind the children's behavior is a daily life that we can't imagine. An accidental satirical cartoon, let Erin begin to understand the children,
"It is our luck to live to the age of eighteen";
"We live in war and you never know when you're going to be killed";
"The school is like the city, and the city is like a prison. Everyone is divided into independent groups run by tribes. That's the rule here, everyone knows it."
This is every day of the children, living in a gang, destined to belong to this gang, and defending it with their lives, but they themselves do not know what they are hating, why are they fighting? As the child himself said, "It's just two gangs provoking each other, who cares about the story behind?" dead comrades, but they were all worth it, risking their lives to dodge bullets, pull the trigger, and it was all worth it.” School was just the probation officer’s threat: go to school, or go to naval training camp and hang out until the end Only then does a meaningful life begin: a battle about race, about gang status. What's even more shocking is that the children think that the world would be a better place if any other genocide was genocide, this horrific "genocide" hateful thought.
But after understanding the children's ideas, Irene also found a breakthrough in teaching, penetrated into the children's hearts little by little, and gradually developed trust, so we finally have our "freelance writer". Perhaps what the children lack is a guide for their thoughts, without the enlightenment of books, without the guidance of people worthy of admiration, and without a channel to express their hearts; but Irene sent them a diary and began to talk with herself, feeling the most terrible of World War II. The aftermath of the genocide, start to reflect, read new books and start to change... So with these freedom writers, education is a more effective approach than the civil rights movement that hit the streets.
Education may not solve all problems, but its correct guidance will indeed change a lot of things, especially for students who do not have a complete value system. "The profession of teaching has become the most respected profession in the whole country, not only in In America, and all over the world, sometimes the future of your children is in your hands...". The other is the book. The world opened by the book is far richer than we imagine, and it can also shape the personality and thinking of the individual, and give us the greatest initiative to choose to be ourselves. Perhaps, this is also the most irrelevant way to improve oneself with class wealth.
There is also a sentence that touched me very much: "Justice doesn't mean putting bad people in jail, it just means that someone has to pay for the crime." Indeed, there is no absolute fairness and justice, and you don't know which layer is the best. The truth, but this cannot be the reason why we are hostile to the world. These problems cannot be avoided in any social system. Everything that involves people is extremely complicated. This is why we cannot continue to solidify this stereotype!
I think the film not only discusses issues of race, education, but also gender issues. Seeing his wife becoming more and more motivated in her career, and even finding her own value in life, she is still a middle-aged clerk with a bleak future. At the beginning of the common dream, the wife has taken a big step, and the husband is not only not happy for her, but more and more disappointed in himself, and the outward expression is to degrade himself, "You can be my husband who supports me, and we make progress together, just like Those wives who support their husbands" "I can't be your wife", "You may love me in your fantasy", and eventually the husband left. The wife has changed and the husband is still there, and the cracks here will inevitably widen. It's a pity that I hope more people can choose a "growth marriage" and make progress together.
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