High School Film Review

Set in 1968 and is about a High school. This film is a documentary film  and it shows what happens there. It shows how the teacher interacts with the students and how the student interacts with one another. It is in Black and White with Crackles throughout which shows how bland the high school was.

The Audio of this film captures sounds you would hear of a high school like the footsteps and conversations of what you would have heard in a 1968 High school and lessons. For example you can hear the teacher recycling what the student wrote after it being typed on a top-writer. When the teacher talks it is always silent. They have music throughout this film and it happens when they're is no need for talking or having a need of audio. The songs are: (Sitting on the Dock) - Otis Redding, (The Dangling Conversation) - Simon & Garfunkel, (Simon Says) - 1910 Fruitgum Company

I like how the style of this film. has no narrative, just shots from a high school. They're is no one telling you what is going on, or what is happening throughout. The aesthetic is different from todays classroom, you no longer usually have 1 desk per student and a lot more use of technogllogy in the classroom. However the aspect hasn't changed at all persoanally.

I would like to talk about one of the scene which was quite good for me which was about the women fashion show. It is a scene where the teacher was trying to teach the girls how to be ladylike. It comes across In an insulting manner towards the pupils and furthermore tells them how they should do something, which implies to me  how  sexism was around back then and implies they should be a certain way to look attractive. This correlates to the girl who has a short skirt on and was being defensive about how she wasn't trying to make herself  'own individual' as if that was unusual and wrong to do.

On the contrast of this Manliness is portrayed in different ways as well. It shows the different generation views. I am mostly on about the scene where the student claims 'he is being a man' for standing up for himself for what he is being wrongly accused for. whilst the deputy principal view was to be a man he must follow orders and swallow any pride the boy has for himself, which are two exact opposite views on manliness and shows the contrast of generations.

There are some boring scenes one in particular to me which is where the teacher is reading the poem and it doesn't cut you have to listen to the teacher read the whole poem, this however brings you into the classroom and would be experiencing what the pupils are experiencing. It captures the dullness of a classroom well and documents that classroom well.