film review

Reading one of the new york times review, there was one comment that I agree on. What I mainly disagree about was  “This whole movie showed white people in a positive light” to me the movie was debating on weather what race is better. It was not showing the negative side of the color community and the positive side of the white community. But it showed more of the struggles children face living in the harsh community, it shows the pain and suffering that they face. But it also shows the strength of the black community. Its not saying that there kids who get introduce to the drug life, kids who chooses gangs and kids who throw their life away. It doesn’t show how they have no choice. But what it does show is that they did make bad decisions some did and some didn’t but also they are willing to change their life around. The best part of the movie is showing how these kids have the strength turn their life around and finish what they started. This movie shows both white and black people in a positive light. It shows blacking walking from the bottom and running to the top. So I do disagree with the comment that was made.

film use in freedom writers

In the movie freedom writers the use a main film shot through out the entire movie. Which elaborates on each person feeling, facial expression help you understand the character more. This film shot is s close-up, head and shoulder, enabling you to easily see facial expressing, so you can see what the character is thinking and expressing. During this scene the famous R&B singer Omarion plays a freshmen student in one of the toughest school. The kids are seen to have no educations. From the teacher eyes there worthless and not even defined as students. A new teacher joins the school and she teaches this freshmen class. Unlike other teacher she sees something in the students. Omarion fails the class purposely and after school she approach him, she knew he could do better so she said “you will pass my class, even if that means me going to your house everyday to make sure you study and do you homework” when saying that sentence the camera close up to her face and we was able to see the rage in her eyes but also the care.

Another film term they use is a pan, which is pivoting the camera to the side to scan a scene or to follow a moving subject. In the movie there is a scene where a girl watched her father abuse her mother and almost beat her to death. Charges have been pressed on her father, but it is up to her to actually justify his sentence. He now faces the judge and is ask to testify. But before the court scene numerous times she being chased down, and being told not to snitch. They use pan when a gang of both males and females are chasing her to an ally way and as they chase her. The visualization is the camera moving side to side.

As I said before this school is a tough school were many things happen. A day in class a group of asian decided to draw a picture. (the kids ins school divided themselves by race) this picture was of a black male mocking the stero types of a black male. As the boy open the paper he seen the picture and was quickly humiliated. This scene shows a medium shot, a shot that frames a actor, normally from normally from the waist up.