tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9099675.post6748143634796458425..comments2023-09-20T10:43:13.922-04:00Comments on film, music, philosophy, moral meaning, and storied living: Finding Forrester - 5~greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03643717782718495294noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9099675.post-35429818371970138242007-04-05T13:20:00.000-04:002007-04-05T13:20:00.000-04:00I remember watching this back in the theaters. It...I remember watching this back in the theaters. It's harmless enough and directed well enough, but if memory serves it's so slight in its pedagogical treatment of education as to be neglegible, In terms of having to watch it for an Education class, it's kinda like "Dead Poet's Society," where you go, "...and?" Plus, the Paquin character just totally disappears.<BR/><BR/>I think Half Nelson works beautifully as a counterpoint, ascribing an actual pedagogical framework (Hegel's dialectics) even as it knows that such outside-the-box teaching for high school will be damaging to the principles that the school wants covered.<BR/><BR/>PaulAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com