Mel Gibson in a scene from the movie 'The Man Without a Face' that he directed.
New contribution to our review of films related to the world of education, in which we once again observe the tandem formed by teacher and student helping each other, each in their own way, as we have already seen in 'Discovering Forrester'. The tape, titled 'The Man Without a Face' was directed by Mel Gibson in 1993 and stars Gibson himself, accompanied by Nick Stahl, Margaret Whitton, Fay Masterson, Gaby Hoffmann, Richard Masur, and Geoffrey Lewis, among others.
The synopsis introduces us to Charles E. “Chuck” Norstadt, a boy who lives in a marine village in Maine and what suffers from serious family conflicts in a fatherless home. Chuck is struggling to achieve one of his greatest dreams, to enter the West Point military academy, but due to his surroundings, his grades are poor and everything seems to go wrong until he meets a strange hermit man named Justin Mc Leod (Mel Gibson ) whose face is half disfigured from a car accident. He accepts him as a student without any price in return, so he gives him all his confidence.
Everything seems to be going better for Charles E. 'Chuck' Norstadt on the academic side, but behind a stern, fatherly but friendly tutor, there is a dark past that haunts him and that in the long run will affect the solidly fraternal relations between student and tutor. The outcome is completely unexpected.
'The man without a face' has a plot that captures and the story becomes interesting as the relationship between the boy and the teacher progresses. Kid (Nick stahl), all be said, that performs a notable and solid first role. Also noteworthy is the makeup work they had to do with the character of Gibson.
But the important thing about the film is undoubtedly the message it intends to convey to us: that you have to knowing how to look beyond appearances to get to know people well and not judge themas we often do it very lightly. A load of values, also very much in line with the controversial and disputed "Education for citizenship."
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