High School

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Kyle M @RT77296778 Aug 19 Classes are back in session in this cinema verité documentary as a functional time capsule glimpsing educationally methodic influences that reminds us in appreciatively transitional reminiscence alongside generational differences by overall moderate engagement. (B) See more s r @ScottR 11/15/2022 1001 movies to see before you die. It was fascinating to see how I was captivated by something so simple, the conversations between students, teachers, teachers teaching class, the principal and many others. The direction was subtle to include specific people and conversations to manipulate the audience into calling into question how a High School is run, but it didn't show much about the successes of the teachers and focused on the authoritarian aspect of things. Regardless, it was a fascinating documentary and a good time capsule. It was on Internet Archives. See more 04/21/2017 This documentary honestly didn't do anything for me. It was interesting to see a school from the late 60s but it didn't have any dialogue like most documentaries and kept jumping around every 2 minutes which made me wonder what was going on. Pretty Dull and Plain in how it was made.. See more 06/16/2016 Filmed in a mostly white Philadelphia high school in the late 1960's, documentarian Frederick Wiseman shows how the everyday struggles of these teachers, students, and parents were a microcosm of those in Vietnam-era America. Administrators trying to impose discipline on apathetic and unruly students, mostly clueless (but well meaning) teachers attempting to inject purpose and order into teenagers' lives, and parents trying to love their kids despite their desperate need to reject everything they stand for. Not only are the themes expressed here timeless, but it is the insight into how they played out in that exact place and time that is so fascinating. Whether it's a gynecologist insisting sexually experienced partners make worse spouses than virgins, a teacher trying to pedantically explain why Paul Simon's music is poetry, or another teacher organizing a fashion show while insulting the girls who will be in it, older audiences are reminded just how ridiculous high school was, while teenagers will take comfort in knowing their parents and grandparents had to put up with the same stuff they do. See more 12/08/2015 So good. And there's a Rushmore shot context in it! Student is using the phone in the hall without a pass, and an adult stops him, and he puts his finger out to him while still on the phone, just like Max Fischer does in Rushmore. See more 02/06/2015 A interesting and morbid look at high school life. See more Read all reviews

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