An Extremely Touching Movie!

   Happy weekend everyone!

   My post today is going to be about a movie I saw the other day.

Since most of you know, I am attending the Practicum together with some of you, my classmates. In the theoretical classes, we have been dealing with the topic of children with special or different needs. For that reason, three different teachers have given us classes in order to explain us how to teach a subject to these children, which has been very interesting.

   One of the teachers who shared with us her knowledge and wisdom is a teacher who also works at the Teaching Training Programme (but in another career). She gave us different definitions as regards the topic mentioned and, also, she talked about specific cases in which she has helped those children have a life as normal as possible.

   
   The introduction of her class was by showing us a fragment of a movie. Of course, my classmates and I wanted to keep on watching the movie, since it seemed to be really interesting! That is what motivated me to search the net and try to watch the movie online.

   The name of this breath-taking movie is "Front of the Class". After looking for it for about an hour and a half, I could finally find it on YouTube.

   "Front of the Class" is a movie that talks about a true story of a guy, Brad Cohen, who suffers a desease: he has got "Tourette Syndrome". Maybe most of you do not know what that Syndrome is about, neither did I until I watched the movie. But, for you to have a clearer picture of it, it is a desease that affects the brain. In the case of the main character of the film, this desease causes him to make some strange noises with his mouth as well as have some tics on his body which he cannot control. The most astonishing thing about this man is that he knows for certain what he wants to do in his life, and here comes the main issue of the whole movie. Brad Cohen wants to be a teacher. 

   During the whole film, this man faces many prejudicial looks and he is, somehow, mistreated by society in general. He is seen as a "weirdo" and he is left aside, discriminated. He wants to teach in Primary School and spends a lot of time trying to get a job, going to interviews and waiting for phone calls. In every single interview he has to give explanations for his "funny noises" and talk about his Tourette, due to the fact that nobody understands how such a handicapped man could be possibly capable of teaching anything to children. Eventually, he succeeds and gets a job and some perspectives towards him get to be changed.

   
   When I watched the movie I couldn't stop thinking about some questions that kept coming to my mind, and one of them was: why are we, human beings, so prejudicial and so mean? Something else I kept on thinking was: why do we assume so firmly that someone who has a certain kind of desease or who is handicapped or suffers from special needs is incapable of succeeding in life? Why do we shut the doors for them?

   While I was watching "Front of the Class", in many occasions I dropped many tears and felt helpless. It made me angry to realize how insensitive we all are and how cruel we can be towards others who may even be better than us for the hard work and effort they put in their own lives so as to be someone and achieve their goals. Instead of discriminating them, we should learn from them. We should fight our own ghosts and we should try to knock down the obstacles we encounter in front of us and to do our best so as to obtain what we desire.

   As a final reflection, I have to say that this very moving and spectacular movie made me see some things differently and encouraged me to stick my mind to the following thought: we cannot let anything, not even a desease, get in our way for us to achieve whatever it is we want to achieve in life!

Here I share with you some pictures from the movie and its official Trailer! I hope you enjoy it! =)