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Plot |
First the documentary follows one disadvantaged black student from a bad neighborhood get into Harvard for free and then it wonders why getting a good education for everybody else isn’t just as easy. It touches back on this issue later on when a free college tries to move to a profit system and then comes down hard on an online system of education when they fall short of perfection. Surely the director must have been blinded to the advancements that have been made in this area and the scores of students that have been helped. And then I was sorry to see that little was mentioned about the cycle of rising school costs. There was some focus on it as to say it was there, but they didn’t address it in any way to come to any conclusions in order to fix it. It was like watching a bull navigating a china shop without breaking through any issue the government had a role in. The documentary illustrates that the cost of tuition have dramatically increased over the years and well above the costs of other commodities, only there were no answers and no one in the here and now to hold responsible. Funny how Obama got no blame in this mess like he wasn’t around to do anything about it, instead they dig up Reagan because he like Milton Friedman believed colleges need to be pay for by someone. It doesn’t make sense that people who don’t go to college should pay for the ones that do go to college, which is probably why this documentary only hinted at that idea. The underline question that is in play here is why our nation’s students have so much debt yet that ponderance is kept at bay by a ten foot pole. Without much to say the narration swings around to the black student they started out with. He isn’t doing well in any of his classes, yet he explains while driving through his rundown neighborhood that he is determined to finish his college because without it he would have nothing. |
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Character Development |
The narrative is like a leaf in the wind. There is no rhyme or reason to its direction, only simple ends up where it started. |
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Acting |
No Acting. This was a documentary. |
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Overview |
There was only the very basic of production values. Like something that you would find on most TV shows. The only plus here would be no commercials, but to tell you the truth if I was watching this documentary on TV and was forced to watch a commercial I would probably watch something else. Since this documentary was produced by CNN I think it is a good bet that you will find it on their network before long anyway so it is probably not worth viewing it until then and subsequently it might be too much of a bother to drive to the local movie theater to see a film that doesn’t ask any hard questions and avoids searching for any answers. But if you want to watch a film and walk out knowing less than you already do than this documentary will be the one you have been waiting for. |
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