A film that I recently watched is „Freedom Writers

Film Review „Freedom Writers“
A film that I recently watched is „Freedom Writers“. It is a classroom film and was directed by Richard LaGravenese. The main actors are Hilary Swank, Patrick Dempsey, Scott Glenn and Imelda Staunton. The film is based on the book „Freedom Writers Diary“ by Erin Gruwell who is played by Hilary Swank. The film was produced in the United States in 1990 and was published in 2007. It is set in Long Beach. „Freedom Writers“ tells the story of Erin Gruwell, a young teacher at the Wilson Classical High School in Long Beach. The students in her class are in different racial gangs and they don’t like each other. In their free time they fight. Erin Gruwell tries to help the kids with projects to integrate them in class. One of her projects is the „Diary of Anne Frank“. Erin pays the books from her own money because the principal, Margaret Campbell (Imelda Staunton), doesn’t want the students to read the book so she doesn’t buy the books. The students are so impressed by this book that they want to invite Miep Gies who has helped to hide Anne Frank during the Second World War. This project helps the students to recognize that they are a community. At the end of the year Erin Gruwell is allowed to teach her class in the following years too. Erin Gruwell doesn’t have any time for her husband, so he divorces from her. The hero is played by Hilary Swank, she is a charming young woman who tries to help the kids in her class. Her husband is played by Patrick Dempsey. At the beginning he supports his wife but in the end he divorces from her. Richard LaGravenese won the Humanitas Prize in 2007 and was nominated for the NAACP Image Award in 2008. The soundtrack of this film is rap and black music. I like the film because it’s never boring and I think the film is sad. My favourite scene is where Erin Gruwell plays the game with the red line because it is a very serious scene. I would recommend the film because it is an interesting film and there are many serious and sad scenes. I think kids of my age, 15 years old and above can watch the film because young kids couldn’t understand this film. (Marie Billmann, 10d) Elisabet Solé Marimon FILM REVIEW The title of the film is “Freedom writers”, it’s a film about different gangs in a High school class and a young teacher. The story happened in the Bronx neighbourhood. There was a high school and a problematic class, the students were in different gangs, and they behave very bad because they had a difficult lives. Their teacher just started teaching that year. They called her Miss G. The first days the teacher had problems to did the class, but she wanted to help them. For this reason she took them to visit museums and interesting places. Unfortunately the head studies didn’t help her to buy material, so she must buy it with her money. She stayed a long time with the students, as a result she gets divorced to her husband. Finally the boys went to university and everyone was happy. I really like the film and I recommend it a lot, because it was a real and a beautiful story. Carlota Díaz-Guerra Prats FILM REVIEW: FREEDOM WRITERS The film “Freedom Writers” is about a teacher called Erin who’s new at a high school in New York. This had a lot of prestige but then there was a lot of immigration and everything changed. She was married to an architect. As usual, Erin was given the worst class at the high school. There were gangs and the students were always fighting to protect their families or friends. The teachers thought she could change that, so she started taking the students to a school trip at a museum or giving them new reading books (she had to look for 2 new jobs!) but her husband didn’t accept that so they could write whatever they wanted and leave her read it or not. In the end, all the students loved her and also each other. They had to say goodbye to Erin, but they fought for her and they could graduate and go to the University with her. They never gave up. I loved the film because it shows you never to give up and to continue trying it. I would recommend it to everyone so they can think about their lucky lives.