The Freedom Writers

I stumbled upon this movie by chance only. I must admit that I am guilty because I only watched it because of Dr Mc Dreamy aka Dr Derek Shepherd aka Patrick Dempsey. I looked him up in Wikipedia and found out that this movie was in his resume for year 2007. Although I must admit that I was quite disappointed with him because his part in the movie was so small and not so nice in the end pulak tu! But he still maintained his charming act and in short, HE IS SOOOOOOOOO GORGEOUS LAAAA....

The movie? It was SOOOOOOOO breathtaking. SUPERB! A1! Five star! Memang best! I don't know why it never hit our shore. Mungkin sebab the content is not Hindustani like, cintan-cintun, frust menonggeng, tahyul or seram like those films and dramas that are monopolizing our cinemas and TV airtime nowadays.

It is based on a true story of racial prejudices and war against in other in Long Beach (is it in CA? Not sure la...I left my Geography at Form 3..hehe..) It was a story about how a teacher managed to unite the whole bunch of teenagers in the same class (Room 203) at a high school who hated each other with contempt, just because they were not from the same races, colors and beliefs. She did not get any support from her head of department nor the school's principal when she asked for funds to buy books so that the students in Room 203 could read and learn. Therefore, she had to take another 2 jobs, selling bras at a boutique and becoming a concierge at a posh hotel so that she could afford to buy new books about racism for her class to read. She also organized a trip to a museum so that the students understand the evil of racial discrimination and took the underpriviledged teenagers to dinner at the hotel that she worked in so that they could have discussions with survivors or the Holocaust. These treats in return, unite the classroom and they became a family unit, no matter how bad their real family outside treated them and no matter from what race that they were born in.

The teacher, Erin Gruwell (acted by Hillary Swank) was divorced by her husband (Mc Dreamy) because he didn't comprehend why she was so into the children whom were not even hers. But her ways of touching the lives of the teenagers were extremely superb and really should be applauded. The foundation is still around and is making progress to educate teenagers from other schools and is proven to be a successful teaching program.

I strongly recommend you to go see the movie by any means. It's worth it and it gave something for you to ponder about long after you finished watching the movie. A warning though: It's a tear-jerker. I cried, and cried watching it. How wouldn't you, when you see how those kids suffered because of hate?