Blog 6: Favorite Movie

Freedom Writers (movie)

Hello everyone, today I will tell you about my favorite movie. 

My all-time favorite film is "Freedom Writers" the film is based on the book "The Freedom Writers Diary" by professor Erin Gruwell.

The Freedom Writers
Diary (book)

The film begins in 1994, in Long Beach, California, Erin Gruwell is accepted to teach English to at-risk students at Woodrow Wilson High School, a school where racial tensions, segregation and abandonment toward students has increased. Throughout the film, Erin struggles to connect with her students, who see themselves as enemies among themselves because they belong to rival gangs. One day, Gruwell intercepts a racist drawing of one of his students and uses it to teach them about the holocaust (a subject that students had no knowledge of). After that, the teacher begins to earn the trust of her students and makes them talk about their personal experiences daily.

My favorite character is teacher Gruwell, as she never gives up with her students and always supports them (even after school), she managed to create a family with people who used to be rivals and that's admirable. I watched the film for the first time 2 years ago, I do not remember exactly how many times I have watched it but every time it's on tv I watch it or if I feel like seeing it, I look it up on the internet.