To Sir, With Love

I just watched To Sir, With Love yesterday. It was a good movie, but I thought the formula for the movie was a little ‘been there, done that’ in terms of movie themes. Of course, it is from the ‘60s, so I wasn’t too surprised.

The British slang kept throwing me off a bit, because obviously I didn’t know what they were saying. I also don’t know if I liked Mr. Thackeray’s character very much (he was the teacher). He just seemed so…bland at parts. But I guess he was supposed to be that way. Overall, I liked the movie though.

I got a little stuck writing the review. I really didn’t know what I wanted to say when I started. Right at the end though, I got a stroke of inspiration from thinking about it a little more. It was hard to see since the movie covered so many issues, but I tried to relate it to school assessment.

One of the themes of the movie was supposed to be racial issues, but I really didn’t see that much. I saw more of social issues and things like that. Being a movie from the ‘60s, I thought that it would be entirely about racial issues, but it wasn’t. At times I thought that this couldn’t really happen and that it was too perfect of an ending, but I bet I’d be surprised. This movie helped me see that teachers matter a lot more than I thought.

If anyone is doing school assessment, you should give To Sir, With Love a try.