Review №2

9. Movies. Give a review of the movie “Dangerous Minds”. How did Louanne Johnson change lives of her students?

I am going to speak about the film “Dangerous Minds” and say how Louanne Johnson changed lives of her students. It is a 1995 American film, the director of which is John N. Smith and the main actress is Michelle Pfeiffer. Its genre is biography, crime and drama. The setting of the story is  Belmont, California, the USA.

Let me pass on to the plot of the film. The ex-marine Louanne Johnson is searching for a job and she immediately gets a job of a teacher in one of the schools in Belmont. She is surprised by it but wants to begin. No one tells her which students she is going to work with. Their first meeting was a difficult challenge for a new teacher but in sometimes she can get on with them. Louanne not only teaches them at school but helps them in their lives as well. She tries to cope with their difficulties with them but her only failure is Emilio who is shot. She breaks the school rules because of her students and they begin to respect and love her. When Mrs. Johnson says that she is going to leave the school, her explanation is not convinced her students who are needed in her and ask her to stay. The teacher decides to stay to be with her class.

I would like to mention the acting. I like Michelle Pfeiffer and I think that her performance was really good. The actress could convey the emotions and feelings of Louanne Johns with all her ups and downs. The scene when she came to the principal and then got to know about Emilio’s death impressed me greatly because her emotions seemed to be real but not artificial. Even I was not indifferent when she was talking to the students for the last time. I understood why she wanted to leave it and why she decided to stay.

Besides, I would like to single out the theme which I think is very important and was mentioned in the movie. In my opinion only her love and belief in her students helped Louanne to change their lives. In this film as well as in the previous one, no one did not believe in those teenagers and in their abilities. Except her. Only that teacher can become a good one who does not doubt in children and who is always help and encourage them. It is the main thing except get them knowledge, of course, which a teacher must do.

In conclusion I would like to say that I like this film and the atmosphere of it. There are many problems and difficulties which the main character had to deal with anв for me it was interesting to observe how she could cope with them. I think this film is worthy to watch those people who do not believe in themselves and their abilities in order to see how a person can change not only her life but lives of so many teenagers with already stable life positions.