In the beginning it was great and in the end it was like "Rest In Peace"(Dmitry Ustyantsev)

You know, in the beginning of the film "Freedom writers" I liked it a lot. There was a strong story and a good work of all actors. I liked the way the moviemakers tried to show the life of those criminal areas and how that affected the young people who lives there. The school kids were not some kind of nazis but on the streets they had to be divided someway to form stable groups(or gangs) that could support and protect them from aggression of other angry neighbors who had hard lives too. Race is the most natural in that case because it is not only about skin but the of live and values too. That's a kind of a classic plot.

But then the movie turned into a classic Hollywood "superhero" drama where a saint college graduate deals with a class of street gangsters. Mysteriously, she turns them to the right direction. That is not a drama, that is a non-science fiction. The students were not a group of kindergarten kids who didn't like each other's color but those who divided into groups to survive, and did shoot each others on the street, and the moviemakers want me to believe that they changed under the influence of the teacher's speeches and visiting Holocaust museum. I know what is Holocaust, my Jewish great-grandfather, still alive, was shot three times when he was fighting on WW II. It has nothing to do with street violence. I repeat, the kids were not nazis, they lived street lives.

The movie reminded any of those sport dramas where an inspirited coach comes to train a team of losers of baseball or any of Rocky movies where is beaten severely in the first part of the fight and should have died long ago but destroys his opponent someway.

I hope you got my point.