Thursday, March 5, 2009

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"The Class" by Laurent Cantet


Finally a realistic movie about the school. A film about the schools and young people as they really are, because it is a film created by young people, with students picking up their lives and their impressions.
Finally a real movie after all the unsuccessful attempts of filmmakers who have tried to show the school as in their opinion, but really in a class we may not have ever been.
Finally a realistic film and it was better that was not there.
E 'ironic of course my statement, because "Inside the Walls" is the title of the film is a generational split at all optimistic, because optimism is by no means the majority of youth and school today. Boys
empty inside, have nothing to tell (apparently, it is hoped) that they have no intention to understand what is around because they do not know who I am. This is the main problem, do not know who they really are. They want to be like others, want to simply be thinking youth to follow their way of being, their true essence, but the reality is that it does not reign in them the security of knowing what they want, but in reality, chaos reigns, one set of rules and settings obtained by the reality that pretend to have the answer to their way of life, but in reality have nothing to tell.

blame them but blame, most importantly, the world around them and the school has have failed to do had never been able to teach the passion and interest in the world and never having been able to really listen. Grammar, trigonometry, literature, history, science subjects are all useless if you teach kids who have no interest in understanding them.
What is the point to read (in Italy) "The Betrothed" or "Malavoglia to children who have never picked up a book? Schools should teach the love of reading in those three years of middle school and 5 above. Should give birth in their desire to pick up a book. If we succeed in this they will be great to read "The Betrothed" if they want.
What is the teaching dates, events historical characters that kids do not even know who are they and what happens in their city and their nation?
The school must teach the passion for the things the knowledge that life does not serve to anything. I do not give anything vaguely remember a few fragments of the Divine Comedy, I'm interested to have learned that what can be beautiful if I may be interested in literature and take hold of the Divine Comedy when he grew up, or otherwise read millions of books. I do not give anything to know when Napoleon died, but it is important that in me there is the curiosity of wanting to understand more of the past, going to inform me and maybe then to find out when you Napoleon died.

School, and Cantet's film tells it well, can not talk to the boys, he can not get to their same wavelength, but stops at a vision of a school that is just forcing children to adapt but the school is not a training ground for life, is a gym to ourselves, to see and understand ourselves (students) and increasing. You should not teach me that I must follow the rules, stand up when he enters a professor, to be composed, etc. ... learn these things growing up, but I'll never get anywhere if I learn to sit up the mixture, but not to look around and ask me what's right or wrong in the world and what can I do to improve it.

The school today, in both France and Italy, teaches hatred for the culture and not the love of passion and interest. And "The Class" is a perfect example of this. A pessimistic film, because the real, which closes with the sentence of a student "I have not learned anything" that is emblematic of today's youth and society that are shaping the adults around them.

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