Film review and shots- Freedom Writer analysis

Freedom Writers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvTFaoxIfhw

A dedicated teacher within a racially divided Los Angeles school has a class of at-risk teenagers, who are deemed incapable of learning. Instead of giving up, she inspires her students to take an interest in their education and planning their future.
She assigns reading material that related to their lives and encourages them all to keep the journals in order to express their feelings and personal situations. The movie is also based on the DC program called City at Peace.
The film was dedicated to the memory of Armand Jones who was killed after wrapping up  the film. He was eighteen and shot to death after confrunting a robber.

The soundtracks consist of 'A Dream' produced by Will.I.Am, Tupacs song 'Keep Ya Head Up' and the instrumental section of Sia's 'Breathe Me' accompanying the trailer.
Overall the film was given 69% poitive reviews.
Freedom Writers was directed by Richard La Gravenese and based on the book The Freedom Writers Diary  by teacher Erin Grunell and her class.

At the beginning of the trailer, the first shot sets the scene and general situation of the film -what was happening in that society within that time period and place.
The different cut scenes jump from one to another, these put together create the background history of why the violence is occuring.
During the trailer there are various voice overs covering perticulare scenes, this gives the person the role of the narrator, someone who tells the situation as it is and holds no power over the different situations.





Why?

I chose to study the film Freedom Writers because of the underlining messing it openly portrays towards every audience member. Being based on a true story, it shows the situation that not only adults had to endure but young adults who were still in education, this expresses that everyones 'reality', social life and community is different, and shows others the situation that others had to endure, then and currently.
It brings awareness to the pressure of society, examples of this shown within the film is the general pressure surrounding the pupils, violence (use of guns), gangs and family problems. These issues surround the students/children within that area and segregate them from the more 'privilaged' children enclosed within a safe(r) environment.

Throughout the film different emotions are expressed due to the sudden changes that take place within the story line, ones such as; anger, happiness and the vunerable feeling of change.
Freedom Writers is a dramatic, emotional and realistic interpretation of the original story, and it always keeps you attentive and focused on the events that take place- making everything action, reaction and upsetting thought of the students looked apon with heart filled eyes.