Scene from the movie 'Dangerous Minds' with Michelle Pfeiffer and Wade Domínguez in the cast.
Today we rescue a film from the year 1995, for our section 'Cinema and education', it is about "Dangerous minds" with a young Michelle Pfeiffer in a rather drinkable film, which was directed by John N. Smith, and featured in its cast: Michelle Pfeiffer, George Dzundza, Renoly Santiago, Wade Domínguez and Courtney B. Vance, among others.
Ronald Bass's screenplay is based on Lou Anne Johnson's autobiography and tells his story, which begins when decides to abandon her ex-marine career for a dream: to become a literature teacher. She begins her work at an institute in the center of the city, in an area where life has taught students not to trust anyone. Determined to change this situation, she will have no qualms about facing the rules to change not only her own life, but also that of her students, focusing on their stories, experiences, occurrences and outcomes.
'Dangerous Minds' brings us a new teacher (Michelle Pfeiffer) tries to channel some troubled students and with the worst circumstances around them ... Ingredients to be interesting were not lacking in the film when it was released (1995), although other titles (such as 'Street newspapers') they have detracted a lot, because they are of higher quality and address a very similar theme.
But delving into the educational issue, the great lesson of the film is the sample of how "the Pfeiffer" begins to obtain its first fruits when she knows each problem that her students suffer, it is in his approach where he finds the only way to connect with them to get them to get a good education.
Louanne jonson you are facing an extremely strict center, in which his techniques are not seen with good eyes ... But he knows that it is not necessary to look the other way but to face the problem from the root, knowing why students do not worry about acquiring a good preparation to graduate. in the film abundant moral messages, such as: fight to achieve your dream, not give in to the impossible, and the defense that repression is not a solution.
The film also collects certain topics of American cinema, and topics like poverty-rappers, poverty-blacks, teenage pregnancies, etc. But hey, nobody is perfect, and at the end of the day it is cinema. In short, an interesting film to say the least, in which we can see how an inexperienced young teacher struggles to get closer to young people marginalized by society, in a hostile and traumatic environment.
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