Okay so apparently our class doesn't have the abilities to produce a class film because someone lost our tape or something, so I have to use the class A film. Which means I obviously was not able to participate in any making of this film. Although I wish I did have some sort of part in the film, it would have been fun.
I am not quite sure exactly what the message of the play is because I wasn't in the class but from watching the video it seems a little bit similar to the direction of what our class film was suppose to be like. Where the teacher is the one that seemed to be "saved". The teacher seemed to start out sad and depressed, he was drinking what I think is probably alcohol and it begins in some sort of dream sequence. In his dream he talks about poets, kids around him are laughing and goofing around but he seems to be able to get there attention by joking with them and relating what he was teaching to their lives. The fact that he was dreaming of this seems as if he wishes he was able to teach his class like this or maybe it is a memory of how he use to teach his class.
When woken up by a student asking if they were going to have class he brushes her off. This goes back to his real life, where his teaching skills don't seem to match up to his teaching skills or motivation in his dreams. And instead of trying to relate and teach to his students it seems as if he gave up. He has no more will to teach and just determines the faith of all the students based on their archetype. After insulting each of the students he completely gives up and walks out. None of the kids seem to care, probably because he didn't really try to make an impact.
If comparing this to a typical teacher film it seems that the first part of the short film where he was having a dream would be how a real typical teacher film would be like. Where at first the students would reject his authority but then the teacher gets their attention by kind of targeting the rebel or the most popular students. After that he kind of gets most of the students on his side.
When he wakes up the next day in the second sequence it kind of showed the opposite of a super teacher film. Instead of him using different tactics to relate to the students and start bonding with them he seems to gives up. It feels like he has a steaming hatred for the students and kind of tells them their path they will end up in. In most teacher films they are made aware of what their life can turn out in but the teacher is usually the one to let them know how they can "be saved". It seemed like this was like a harsh and probably unaffected way of doing that. And because the teacher gives up, and the students are made aware of their possible future, in the end the students just carry on not caring.
Well for one I am not sure if a teacher would ever get drunk and do that in real life, although I should say that cause you never know. There are some strange things that happen in school that I probably never know about. And I think if a teacher would go up to a student's face like that and insult them and tell them they were nothing they would probably talk back and say something. Although it depends on the teacher, if a really quite and mellow teacher were to one day just snap and tell a student that they were worthless then it would definitely be surprising and make some awkward silences.
Something that didn't happen in this film is someone being educated or realizing their true potentials. Students are kind of seen as roaches and pests. Kids who don't give a crap about their future. In most films the teacher and being in school is suppose to prevent teenagers from being total failures, at least that is what students are taught. By the teacher giving up on the students in the film it basically shows how the students have affected the teacher into being a drunk and not caring, while the students are just left to be failures in their lives. Education seems to always show that people need to be in school and pay attention or they will ruin someone's life including their own. Although I'm pretty sure this is not always true. :/
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