You are about to close the Rome film festival, but there is still time for a nice surprise. A screening of Waiting for Superman, documentary by Davis Guggenheim, which has nothing to do with the famous superhero. Director Davis Guggenheim, who with an inconvenient truth won an Oscar for best documentary won criticized, with waiting for superman the grievances in the American educational system. For German viewers documentation appears to be very interesting if it allows it to draw parallels. An examination of the American school system, and its current plight. A story that starts from the director’s candid admission: “My children were lucky, because I could choose to send them to a private school.” But for those who are forced to go to public discourse is very different.
Guggenheim examines the various aspects of the problem, lack of funds to the sometimes uncomfortable role of teacher unions that prevent the establishment of a merit system that rewards teachers with better performance and allows the hand to dismiss those who are not only well their work, but there’s even committing crimes such as sexual harassment. In contrast, a law against dismissal and therefore encourages the proliferation of bad teaching.
Guggenheim does intervene in this matter many teachers and educators, among them Geoffrey Canada, founder of a so-called Charter School, with funding from private or public schools that are based on a limited number and the lucky students chosen through an annual lottery. The focus of the documentary are still the lives of four students from similar social backgrounds everyone from families in financial difficulties and their route to the fateful day of the lottery. The director succeeds in ambition to move him to talk about an important topic at the same time, but without falling into melodrama.
We followed by the large-screen projection of the pilot’s Boardwalk Empire, the prohibition on new TV series produced by Martin Scorsese and written by the creator of The Sopranos, Terence Winter. You may wonder: why does a TV product is submitted to the Festival of Film in Rome? Why is directed by Scorsese, that’s why. Apart from some undeniable features of the TV series (characters disappear, subplots are introduced and then dropped), the pilot looks like a real movie, between set spectacular work on crazy costumes and a cast film , Boardwalk Empire is presented as a series not to be missed, if possible to enjoy HD on a nice big TV.
After all I finally laid eyes on Arrietty, the new film by Studio Ghibli. Written by Hayao Miyazakibut directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Arrietty is a job well done so far in line with what the study: a very classic fairy tale, a novel by Mary Norton, tells the story of a young boy who goes to a heart condition spend time at grandma’s house the country, waiting to be operated. There, he met with Arrietty, a tiny girl who is part of a family of “little men” who live in the home of humans and “borrow” various objects that reuse for their purposes.
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