The Freedom Writers

Here I am. I wasn't sure if I'll be writing my next blog after yesterday Well I am posting.

The time is very much different than what it was when I started this blog. The biggest change is that, The government of India, which was the Indian National Congress, has now changed to the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) and so is the prime misiter of our country who is now Narendra Modi. Its not even a month old at today's date. Why it is a big change? Refer to - indiaforaliens.blogspot.com  

So with this many things will change, our lives, our country. There was a joke that was being circulated all over when Modi was elected as PM - Pakistan says, We don't want Kashmir, but we will not give Karachi. - I smiled after reading it and I also felt that people exaggerate a few things so much. Yesterday, I read a news - Karachi airport attacked. the next headline I read was - The master mind of Mumbai 26/11 attack, Hafiz Saeed, says - It is Modi's new security team who did it.
Then I felt, mazak mazak main kuch bhi bol diya! Anyways, thats not what I really want to express. After reading the news, What I felt was, sometimes even jokes behave like reality, and few things just do not match - If a student gives this excuse to the teacher for a leave that - I was bed-ridden and I had gone to a picnic, then for the teacher, these two things just wont match. Likewise -
Karachi faced a terrorist attack.

It just doesn't match. And on top of it, it wasn't America. Either you say it Karachi, or you say it Terrorist or you  do not say NOT America. I mean...who then?

But one respectable thing did impress me, the Pakistan's retaliation.

Whoever must have attacked, the Americans, the terrorists (themselves), the Taliban or whoever...
the retaliation was done very well. Though it was 13 hours, but it is nothing compared to more than 48 hours of 26/11. If a small and wana-be nation can do it, we are huge and powerful in comparison.

This is going to change, is what I am talking about. Or better, there might be no attack as Congress is not in power anymore.

Coming to what I am here for, the Review.

I am going to keep it short.

Freedom Writers.

Well you can check for the technical stuff like cast and crew and stuff like that on IMDB.

It was a movie made in 2007. I saw it now. Its about a classroom of neglected students, who were a part of or affected in some or the other way by civil racist war in 1993 in america. The film is set up in Long-Island, California in the year 1994, a year after racist war.

A group of students, who are considered to be irritating, good for nothing, arrogant and can do nothing in their lives other than violence, get a class teacher, played by Hilary Swank, who bring them together. Builds up a family feeling within themselves. After many failed attempts, she makes them like reading, make them think over their lives, explains them how important it is to be a human and brings out humanity in them.

The film has a slow pace. If you read the reviews on most of the films review sites you would find the average rating and average praises for the film. But for me it is slightly different.

I am a talkie script person. I love other genres too, love them very very much, but talkie is what i can write. And so, I have a special soft corner towards talkie scripts. and the thing I loved about this movie is the script and the use of words in the dialogues. Though this film is based on real life incidents of Erin Gruwell, who actually existed and her students in the classroom 203 at Wilson High were called Freedom Writers, The dialogue and communication by cinematic language used is well done. Handling so many stories and plots and putting it well in place giving equal importance is difficult. And they tried it doing well.

What I liked the most was, taking out emotions. The Writer-Director, Richard LaGravenese has done a brilliant job in bringing up emotions and making the viewer emotional at the same time.

Another good thing is use of music. As the film talks about the rights and under-rating of Black people in US, the music is also used in the similar manner. The Rap songs dominate the film in the beginning and as the film proceeds, the mixed music starts coming making it subtle and giving it a feel good factor.

I will rate Freedom Writers - 7.3/10. In that 7.3, there includes the bonus of  0.8 for writing and 0.2 for music.

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