![]() Erin does embark on a series of lessons and extracurricular activities which have an empowering effect on her students, but she never forgets she is an English teacher when her students propose writing letters to Miep Gies, the woman who sheltered Anne Frank, Erin reminds them that their letters will be marked for proper grammar and punctuation first, so they should be prepared to write more than one draft. It is tempting to compare scenes like this to that moment in To Sir, With Love where Sidney Poitier dumps a bunch of textbooks on the floor and declares that they are useless to his students, who must learn how to survive in the adult world instead. This gives her an idea: What if she could get her students to read Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl, and to write their own diaries as well, bearing witness to the horrors around them just as Anne did?Įrin has a word with Andre (played by Mario) Seeing the picture, Erin turns indignant and lectures her class on the perils of prejudice-only to find that almost none of them have ever heard of the Holocaust. Then, one day, one of Erin's students draws a racist caricature of one of her other students and passes it around the class. As the school year progresses, Erin's efforts to connect with her students-for example, by using a Tupac Shakur recording to explain "internal rhymes"-simply backfire, when they reject her as a poseur who doesn't understand what their life is really like. The students assigned to her class are troublemakers and deadbeats, at least in the eyes of the authorities, and Erin hasn't even finished the first roll call of the year before a fight breaks out. The film then turns to Erin Gruwell herself, who shows up for her first day of school full of enthusiasm and not a little naïve. ![]() ![]() ► A young man yells in a store after losing his money in an arcade game.Students are figuratively and literally divided in their distrust A young man talks about being evicted from his home and living on the streets. ![]() ► We see a boy in a jail cell with older men and he is frightened. A man is pushed to the floor and handcuffed by police. ► We see newsreel footage of rioting in Los Angeles after the Rodney King verdict was announced in 1992, and we hear about the beating of Reginald Denny. ► A woman talks about soldiers raiding her home, and that the soldiers held a gun to her head, while looking for a young woman that she was hiding she then heard the young woman screaming when they found her. Holocaust survivors tell stories about their experiences and what happened while they were in the concentration camps. ► We see the Holocaust museum and see photos of concentration and death camps and people being held in them, we hear about children who did not survive, we see photos of people hanging, and we hear that a boy was killed when he got off a train at a concentration camp. Two young men argue bitterly, shove each other and begin to fight in a classroom (another young man grabs for a gun he has hidden in his pants but does not use it). ► People panic and run through a school and we see a huge fight outside, with young men and young women punching, kicking, etc. A girl is slapped and beaten by other girls (it's a gang initiation ritual) and we see her bloody and bruised face. ► A man is beaten almost to death (we see his bloody and bruised face). A young woman is chased by three men who shove her against a fence and threaten her with a gun. ► A young woman remembers her mother being beaten by a man (we see the woman being struck and see her bloody face), and then the man beats the young woman with a belt. A young woman and a young man are chased on a street, the young man pulls a gun on the two young men chasing them and they stop then gunfire is exchanged. ► Two boys look at a gun, one holds it and shoots himself in the head (we see him slumped over and a patch of blood on the bench where he is sitting). ► A young man is shot to death on a street (we hear the shots and see him lying on the ground with blood on his shirt). VIOLENCE/GORE 7 - A man shoots at a young man who ducks and the bullet strikes another young man in the chest killing him (we see him lying in a puddle of blood).
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