I actually wasn't up to seeing Freedom Writers, it looked like a total rip off of Dangerous Minds, but after so many promising reviews, my friend and I checked it out tonite and I have to say while it is still in my opinion a copy off of Dangerous Minds, it's all good. It had a new little twist on it for a new generation who didn't have the opportunity to see Dangerous Minds. The stories were truly inspiring and very heart breaking at the same time. I never really thought how much of our history is still true to this day, you know? But it goes to show how history will always repeat itself despite how people will always claim that what is currently happening to them is a first time.
Mrs. G is a new teacher to a reform school where she will teach freshman and sophomore English. She finds the task harder when she doesn't realize what she has truly gotten herself into with the gang violence and the drug wars constantly going on. The fear that the students have not knowing if they are really going to make it to the age of 18 and trying to have courage to survive each day. At first they give Mrs. G a hard time, that is until she finds a way through history like the holocaust, to show them that the struggles they face is always eternal. Asking them to write down their feelings, stories, and thoughts into a journal, they soon become the "Freedom Writers".
Freedom Writers was a truly good movie that I was pleasantly surprised with, it had great acting and a very inspiring story. My favorite moment was when they had the woman who sheltered the Franks during the Holocaust come in and speak to the kids and told them how they could make a difference just by following their hearts and doing what they thought was right. I would recommend Freedom Writers, especially if you loved Dangerous Minds ;).
7/10
Mrs. G is a new teacher to a reform school where she will teach freshman and sophomore English. She finds the task harder when she doesn't realize what she has truly gotten herself into with the gang violence and the drug wars constantly going on. The fear that the students have not knowing if they are really going to make it to the age of 18 and trying to have courage to survive each day. At first they give Mrs. G a hard time, that is until she finds a way through history like the holocaust, to show them that the struggles they face is always eternal. Asking them to write down their feelings, stories, and thoughts into a journal, they soon become the "Freedom Writers".
Freedom Writers was a truly good movie that I was pleasantly surprised with, it had great acting and a very inspiring story. My favorite moment was when they had the woman who sheltered the Franks during the Holocaust come in and speak to the kids and told them how they could make a difference just by following their hearts and doing what they thought was right. I would recommend Freedom Writers, especially if you loved Dangerous Minds ;).
7/10