HW - 49

In total honesty, i didn't contribute much to the production of the film. I really wanted to be a director, but as esther did help write it, it was much better that she did it. I saw myself in the corner of the film for a couple parts of it. I didn't have that many lines, nor did i interact with any character that did. I just didn't fit for any of the roles that were written. I would have liked to be more "in it," but there wasn't much i could do. I would say definitely next time, but i doubt there will be a next time, but if there is i would like to participate more i guess.

The tone of the film was mostly self destruction, for the most part. It drifts in and out of anger, regret, and a drunken rage. If you look at the movie as though will isn't a student but a teacher, you can see him trying to relate to the students when he puts them down. You see a level of power that he is trying to attain and needs the students to see him as equal, then he steps above them so he can have his power. The message he the film is trying to send is that humans are humans no matter what their job is and just because they have power over people doesn't give them more power over themselves. By loosing power over themselves but being in a position of power, they tend to fall apart even more, such as the teacher did in our film. He had a tragedy at home and lost a part of himself. He resorted to drinking and because of that he lost even more of himself and it started to show in how he treated his students.

I thought our film really had a violent and dark undertone when compared to the "savior" films. There is no savior. It doesn't follow normal movie standards where it has a conflict and a resolution. The closest it gets to a resolution is when the teacher makes fun of the three different groups of students and therefore is equal with them for when they were demeaning him before. In the savior films the teachers needed to reach the students and make them feel special and therefore want to participate in school and succeed. In this film the teacher doesn't like the students and doesn't care if they succeed or not. He has to deal with his own demons.

So the common conception is that education is the path to salvation. By going to school and participating and doing well then you can go to a good college and good job ect. I can't say i disagree with that because that is how i have been living my life and it is too late to change my course now. The way it works out is to socially mingle us while conforming us to each other's styles and the format of being pushed through a system. The reason this is viewed as a form of salvation is because it helps you get better jobs, which means more money and that in turn means happiness and salvation. To be able to understand the world around you is just to look at it the way the people around you tell you too. To be able to say you have a revolutionary view isn't always the truth. Unique is a much better way to be able to look at the world because we form our opinions from the people and books around us. We need to be able to take them and then mix them with our own and other people's perspectives to be able to see this world. To see things without a bias is really a form of salvation. To not be inclined to one side or another but to understand both sides perfectly and argue them both is to have reached nirvana, that is at least what i think. School does help you get there because it helps you establish other people's POV's and see things as they would, but the vice is that it can over take your own. It is meant to. Who need individualism when we can brainwash the masses? Making one mold is a lot easier then making millions.