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Movie Review: To Sir, With Love
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is a classic! I have loved this movie since I was a child. Sir Sidney Poitier is excellent in this role.Movie Review: Those Who Can Do, Teach
Summary: 4 Stars
In light of the critical problems facing the American public school system over the last 40 years, it's a wonder more educators of all backgrounds and stations haven't learned and applied the basic lessons dramatized in 'To Sir, With Love' (1967), one of the simplest but most astute cinematic works to ever address the subject of education. There have been many worthy films about teaching and educational methods before and since, including 'Goodbye, Mr. Chips' (1939), 'The Corn Is Green' (1945), 'The Blackboard Jungle' (1955), 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' (1969), 'The Dead Poets Society' (1989), and, most recently, 'Mona Lisa Smile' (2003), but none of these films speaks with the keenness, immediacy, and wisdom of director James Clavell's brilliant, engaging, and emotionally stirring classic.
Motherhood may indeed be "the most important job in the world," but motherhood is often unplanned, accidental, and even incidental in the lives of many women around the world. Teaching, however, is, at its best, a deeply felt and motivated vocation, and an absolutely fundamental condition of any community, society, culture, or civilization that wishes to continue to exist and evolve.
'To Sir, With Love' tells the story of Mark Thackeray (Sidney Poitier), a relatively young gentleman of Guyanese origin who takes a job teaching school in the slums of London's East End while waiting for a superior position as an engineer to manifest. Daily confronted by the belligerence, coarseness and, in some cases, overt hostility of his students, Mark sets out on a fairly radical course of action. Instead of utilizing the textbooks provided, he decides to confront his students in as direct a manner as they have confronted him, opening the floor to relatively frank and adult conversation, taking them out into the larger world most of them have never had an opportunity to experience, providing them with a sense of perspective about the tumultuous era in which they live, and by treating them as beings worthy of respect in the wider adult world they will shortly be entering--if they in turn can first learn to respect themselves and one another.
By turns steely and determined, vulnerable and caring, Mark, after painful trial and error, eventually succeeds in teaching his students not only what self-respect is, but what dignity, honor, honesty, fortitude, tolerance, and courage are as well. As the world-famous Don Black / Mark London theme song performed by Lulu declares, Mark teaches them "right from wrong, and weak from strong, that's a lot to learn." Deeply moved by their unexpected farewell gift to him at end of term, Mark, who has finally landed an engineering position, has an unexpected personal revelation after encountering boisterous members of the forthcoming class.
Steering free of melodrama at almost every turn, 'To Sir, With Love' effortlessly reveals how commitment, discipline, dedication, civility, trust, and, above all, genuine concern, lie at the heart of the educational process, in addition to a willingness to engage students on as deep a level as is possible, however difficult or awkward this may prove.
Though not an exercise in "pure cinema" like 'Metropolis' (1927), 'Pandora's Box' (1929), 'Citizen Kane" (1941), 'Beauty and the Beast' (1946), 'Breathless' (1960), or 'Blue Velvet' (1986), 'To Sir, With Love' remains a fittingly educational cinematic gem which can be appreciated and absorbed by audiences of every background, lifestyle, and temperament. The film makes excellent family viewing, and should be figurative 'required viewing' for all parents, future parents, and educators.
1967 was a banner year for Poitier, who gives a highly nuanced performance as the inwardly-torn Mark Thackeray. Lovely Judy Geeson excels as the assertive, aptly-named Pamela Dare, and future pop star Lulu shines as the bright, mischievous Miss Peg. Fans of British comedy should watch for Patricia Routledge of 'Keeping Up Appearances' fame in a smaller role as one of Mark's fellow educators.
Movie Review: to sir with love
Summary: 5 Stars
Great classic movie on DVD. More kids these days should watch this.Movie Review: Poitier at his best
Summary: 5 Stars
This film is without a doubt one of my favorites. I'll never give it up. Fine acting throughout, even the kids'. And the message is clear: One person CAN make a difference in the lives of others. As "Sir", as his class calls him, takes over the class (as a temporary job) in their last few months before graduation, these teenagers are loud, rude, crude, with little respect for each other or for themselves. They come from the slums. "Sir" helps them to realize that they will soon be out there in the world, on their own, and in order to be successful in society and business, they will have to be "with it". He teaches them, not without resistance, how to behave like ladies and gentlemen, he teaches them manners, how to respect and care about each other, etc., in addition to literature, math, et al. He takes them on tours of museums & galleries. He teaches them to cook. By the end of the semester, they have acquired a sense of self-worth and dignity. They have learned to love him, and they let him know. He had applied for a permanent job in some other field, his major, and just before graduation day, he receives an offer of a job at a salary much higher than a school teacher's. He is elated. Then comes the graduation party, and a gift from his students, and he is exposed to the antics of the next class coming in next semester, which are a duplication of his graduating class as they were when he took over. He sees their possibilities, realizing the good that his influence could have on them too, so what does he do??? Aha! See the movie to find out! You'll love it.
This movie has optional English sub-titles.
Movie Review: To Sir with Love
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a "timeless" film. I am a great fan of all things British.I sort of wish they'd remake it with the emphasis on todays youth and their drug use and loose morals.Denzel isn't too old yet to portray the teacher.