HW 49

In the film, the teacher is drunk, and in his drunken slumber he dreams of having intellectual discussions with them and sharing his knowledge with the students but the reality of it was very different. The dream represents his subconscious desire to make an impact on the students and to stir up the student's minds. When he wakes up, he tells the students off and makes a dramatic exit. The students don't say anything for a moment and then return to their conversations as if nothing had happened. Maybe this means that people's expectations are sometimes idealistic and they get disappointed when they aren't met, and their disappointment can sometimes lead to that person's meltdown which we see at the end of the film.

This is very different from most of the savior/teacher films we watched, where the teacher basically changes his/her student's lives. The dream that the teacher has is kind of like the typical teacher/savior film, like the Dead Poets Society where the words are really deep and insightful and the students are contributing to the conversations. But the ending, where the teacher wakes up, shows that doesn' t happen.

From the savior/teacher films, the message is basically to bring salvation to the students, and our education in our culture, is in part to do all that. Hopefully by teaching students about certain subjects they will be informed members of our society. Schooling is seen as a vehicle to salvation. That is why so much emphasis is put on getting a higher education. That once students get an education they can escape anything, their poverty, troubles at home, etc.