Movies are warm, what about life?

Kianna 2022-01-01 08:02:43

I watched "Freedom Writers" last night, a story of spring breeze and rain, which has the same warming power as "Mona Lisa's Smile".
However, I am a pessimistic person after all. What impressed me most about this movie was not Erin’s efforts for her students, but those half-and-a-half teenagers, in poverty, gangs, and hatred. Growing tremblingly under the shadow of death and death. The children in classroom 203 were lucky because they met a good teacher who was willing to listen to them telling their street stories and truly respected them, and found their own safe haven. But what about more African, Hispanic, and Asian children beyond 203? They walked out of the house every day, still wondering if they could come back alive. After all, Erin's power is limited. She tries to spread the wings of her love, but she can only protect the students in this class. She didn't even dare to hand over the junior and senior years of these students to other teachers, because she knew that as soon as she let go, those children would fall into the abyss of darkness again.
She worked three jobs and had no time to accompany her husband but had to accept the divorce. Persistence in her ideals was not without price.
This world lacks not only Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, but also Erin Gruwell.
Suddenly remembered that Uncle Benshan’s "Falling Leaves Return to Roots" is also a human-like story adapted from real people. But a story with a human touch does not mean that the society is human.
Most of the time, life will not be praised. The reason why a story is eulogized is often because it is just a story.

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  • Mercedes 2022-03-26 09:01:08

    I watched it three times on TV. Every time I go home, the TV is playing me

  • Dorothy 2022-01-01 08:02:43

    Regardless of the result, do your best and always believe in hope. This is a hero. Everyone can become a hero and a great person, as long as they overcome their own hearts.

Freedom Writers quotes

  • Eva: White people wanting respect like they deserve it for free.

    Erin Gruwell: I'm a teacher, it doesn't matter what color I am.

    Eva: It's all about color, it's about people deciding what you deserve, about people wanting what they don't deserve. About whites thinking they own this world no matter what, you see, I hate white people.

    Erin Gruwell: You hate me? You don't even know me.

    Eva: I know what you can do. I saw white cops shoot my friend in the back for reaching into his pocket, his pocket! I saw white cops come into my house and take my father away for no REASON except they feel like it! Except because they can! And they can, because they're white. So I HATE white people on sight!

  • Margaret Campbell: You're an honor student. If you transfer to Mrs. Gruwell's class, think how that'll reflect on your records.

    Victoria: It doesn't matter to me, my grades will still be the same. Look, Ms. Campbell, when I first transferred to this school, I had a 4.0 average. But when I applied for advanced placement in English and Math, I was told it'd be better for me to be in a class of my own kind. Now, when I did get in, my teacher said "Victoria! It's not everyday one finds an African American student in AP and Honors courses!"... As if I didn't notice. And when I asked another Honors teacher why we don't read more black literature, she said, "We don't read black literature because of all the sex, drugs, cussing, and fornication". I thought a simple... "It's inappropriate"... would have sufficed.