Freedom Writers

In film enrichment, the first movie myself and my class watched was a Drama film called 'Freedom writers'. This film is directed by Richard LaGravenese and stars the well known actress Hilary Swank.

Freedom writers is based on a the true story of Erin Gruewell and her class. Freedom writers is about a teacher who is left to teach the 'at risk' students of Woodrow Wilson high school who are also labelled as the 'unteachables' because of their crime background and behaviour. After feeling empathy for the students, Erin (the teacher) realizes her student's potential and push them to learn tolerance and peruse a higher education.






I enjoyed watching this film as it showed how despite the different ethnicities shown with the film, they all had something in common with someone else.

Some of the drama conventions used in this film was:
-Real life situations are portrayed for e.g. in the film one of the characters is presented as having are family problems as her mother suffers domestic violence from her father
-The story line moves the audience emotionally; this is shown throughout the film as the dramatic story line about the everyday struggles of these children makes the audience think and feel grateful for the life they have.
-A lesson is learnt (a moral) for e.g. One of the characters named Eva learns that justice is the right thing and she tells the truth in court.