"English Teacher": It is not easy to meet such a teacher

Ulises 2022-09-11 19:15:43

An older, single Chinese teacher living in a small town in the United States stumbles upon a former student with screenwriting potential. In addition to being pleasantly surprised, he actively encouraged students to continue to create, and also contributed money and efforts to contact personnel to promote the students' works into plays for everyone, and inexplicably had an indecent classroom play with the students. When the preparations for the play were progressing smoothly, the student's father rushed out halfway, seemingly trying to thwart his son's talent in the arts. The language teacher was reluctant to go to the theory to distinguish right from wrong, and finally heard another astonishing statement. After returning, the language teacher also discovered the misconduct of the students and actresses. Just when I didn't know what to do, the scandal of "teacher-student love" spread all over the campus again, and the teacher's position was instantly dismissed. Of course, the ending is happy, and ideals need to be fought for.

The film is directed by TV drama director Craig Zisk, starring Julianne Moore, two post-80s Michael Angarano and Lily Collins supporting, and Greg Kinnear playing the role of father. The plot is quite satisfactory, with a little humor of the sitcom. After its release, it has not received much praise from the mainstream media, or it can be said that it has received a lot of bad reviews. To say that motivation is a little understated, Lily is a little attractive, and Julianne's image of a teacher has changed, not as good as the one where the students fell asleep on the desk for less than a minute. Of course, in this regard, Americans are still much more restrained than Koreans. They are not as open-minded as "Perfect Partner", and their discussion of topics is not as profound as the topic of mutual stealing of academic achievements between students and teachers. Then let's just enjoy the fresh performance of Julianne who is still pretty, but a little old. As for whether literature should continue, whether ideals should be adhered to, these are all appropriate minor condiments for this film, and they can't arouse the emotions of the audience.

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    Narrator: Linda Sinclair had reached her 45th year, an unwed high school English teacher, with no prospect of marriage. Hers appeared to be a rather ordinary life, one of discipline, frugality, small indignities. Modest hopes, and disappointments.