I never expected that this kind of movie can make me cry all the way through the end of the story. This story is meant to educate us that no matter what problems you have, others have it even worse than yours. I’d read an article in
Malay newspaper about how the western install the
holocaust thingy in every movie they had made even in the form of papers for example the diary of
Anne Frank, which I have not read but I’d watch it in screen(touching story btw). To find the true meaning of it, I
google it and found out that it is related towards the event where the
Jews were killed for about 6 million people by the
Nazi’s(some movies that portrayed this event are
The Pianist and
Beautiful Life) . In the article, I had been told that all people around the world were blinded by the
Jews propaganda by showing that they had suffered more than the
Muslims. I tend not to be discussing this in more details because I do not discriminate people by just seeing their race or colour. What am I trying to say is I appreciated this movie for showing that
humanity does not occur for certain race or religion, we know what is good and what is bad. I kind of
babbling over here, so let’s cut to the chase and presenting the summary of the story:
This story is based on a book called The Freedom Writers Diary by teacher Erin Gruwell who wrote the story based on Woodrow Wilson Classical High School in Long Beach, California, a place where hatred and racism abound. Erin’s first day of teaching is a shock to her because every seconds, there were fights and cursing. Day by day, she begins to earn their trust and buys them a journal for them to write about their own stories like a diary, in which they talk about their experiences of being abused, seeing their friends die, and etc. She teaches them about Holocaust and brought them to the Holocaust museum and meet with the survivors and all the time she had spent with her students does not bring any happiness with her marriage because her husband felt neglected and at the end of the story, the husband filed for a divorce. Many of her colleagues hated her methods of teaching because of jealousy, I think. Meanwhile, Erin gives her students a project to write their diary in the form of a book and she compiles the projects into a book called The Freedom Writers Diary. At the end of the movie, Erin successfully brought many of her students to graduation and college.
p/s: I have this movie if you want to watch ;)
Current Mood: Contented
Current Song: Who’s David by Busted
You're a thinker; you care deeply about the world you live in and you want to make a change. Your passion for life and for the value of others attracts others to you and you and your equally passionate partner will no doubt be halving your time jet-setting around the world spreading your beliefs and marveling at all the artistic, architectural and humanitarian wonders you come across, and spending time alone at home marveling in each others' company in the knowledge that you are one of the few people who truly know you are and what it means to be happy.
