HW 49 - Esthers Film

Due to the fact that Our class did not finish our film because of time wasted and certain people just not showing up for no reason, is the reason why I am writing in response to Esther's film, which I must say was very funny and straight to the point. And because this isn't my video I obviously didn't have a contribution to it. That being said, I am just going to briefly give a summary of what I thought about the film and how it made me feel.

This film was really great and funny. It seems to me like the film was about this teacher who had students who were fighting with each other, gossiping with each other, and doing things they weren't suppose to do. The first day he was trying to teach them even though they were being very disrespectful. While kids weren't even listening him he was stilling trying to teach them what they needed to learn. he even tried going up to them individually and try to talk to them, and still that didn't work, the teacher was still being mistreated and everyone just didn't give a dam at all what the teacher had to offer to them. So then the next day he was sleeping. One of the students woke him up cause he was drinking. That's when he started acting crazy towards the students saying that one of them was a scum bag and how they got scum bag in the dictionary and how the student's name is next to scum bag, and so on and so fourth. He was just disrespecting them and calling them names, while drunk, and after that he made a smart comment and slammed the door behind him as he was walking out. The kids then was quiet for a second and then went back to their usual ways which was being bad, fighting, and gossiping.

This wasn't like the usual super hero movie. Even though it had the usual beginning of these super teacher type of movies, it didn't the same. This class film had a ending where the teacher left them while the kids went back to what they were doing which was being obnoxious. While in the super teacher films, the teacher ends up changing every students way of life and making them do a complete U-turn, from bad ghetto kids to kids who want to learn and succeed in life.

The message I feel that is being portrayed in Esther's film, is that a teacher can't make students magically turn their lives around. Every body can't be a hero. And lastly the message that's being portrayed is that school isn't the answer to everything and that it doesn't make people change. When the students weren't listening to the teacher, the director was trying to show that just because the he was the teacher, doesn't mean he has more power then them and control us. This film had plenty different messages due to the fact that the film was the opposite compared to the teacher films we watched in class.

The connection Esther's video had with the kind of schooling and education that we have is different and similar in some ways. Some ways that is similar is that you are always going to have certain types of kids. For example, you are always going to have the kids who fight, the gossip girls, 2 or 3 quiet kids, whites, blacks, Asians, Latinos, all of that. In Esther's video, she has all these types of people in that class. She also has the people who are fighting in there video and when the teacher does something crazy, the class gets quiet for a split minute. Some things that are different, is the teacher drinking. I don't think in our culture, teachers get to the point where they have to drink alcohol just because they can't get through their class and because the kids were acting up. In our culture school is our saviour, it's what makes us get by in life, but not for Esther's video. In that case, School is not important to these kids, for example those "gossip" girls. They thought that it was more important to sit there and gossip and spread information within one another then to sit and be quiet while the teacher taught the lesson so they can learn and succeed in life.

Salvation is when somebody or people are in the state of being saved or preserved from harm. and with education that is what education is used for, that is why it is mandatory, Like in the films the teachers wanted to save these students, they wanted to give the kids who weren't motivated enough an opportunity to learn and be successful in life. So the connection between and salvation is saving somebody. Education saves students from being the opposite of successful which is a failure at life.