I want to show this to my 12th grade literature class. We read the play and they really seemed to like it. I haven't seen this film and was wondering if there was any objectionable material in it.
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There are parts of this film which I believe may not be appropriate for a high school classroom. There are small amounts of female nudity, and there are many parts which immature 18 year old male students would misconstrue as funny. I had to watch this film as a college Theatre Major, and I found parts of it to be mildly revealing and innappropriate for a required classroom setting. I would suggest not showing the film as a required part of the class, but possibly as an optional activity in the evenings where concerned students would not need to attend.
sharewe viewed it last spring at my college for an event related to an extracurricular, and I dont think there would be anything wrong with laughing at points, since I think everyone in the room did, the majority of which were 20+ females. The parts of the film that sone may think of as funny happen to be the parts which then ebcause you saw a bit of light in the film help you to make it through the end, especially considering this is a viewing of one woman's demise to cancer. In my high school we had watched some movies with questionable material in it, and from what we were allowed to view in a Catholic high school, it seems like W;t is a film appropriate to show in a classroom, especially if they have already read the play.
shareI saw this movie as a 12th grader in a drama class. We were all touched by it. Certainly show this to your students, allow them the choice of watching it or taking a study hall and having an alternative assignment. The students who stay will certainly be inspired and rewarded but the fine acting, beautiful script, and wonderful soundtrack. I'm a college freshman in her second semester and watching that film is one of the most soild and worthwhile memories of my highschool career.
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In the end of the movie *spoilers*************when her heart stops, jason rips off her hospital gown to administer cpr. In several shots you see Thompsons breasts. At first I was shocked at because it was so sudden and unexpected but then in that context you don't pay the sort of attention you would to that. In the moment you're more shocked at the coldness, Jason calling that "She's research" instead of "she's a human being" or "she's a great teacher" in fact everyone else in the scene are oblivious to the fact that this woman is lying there totally exposed! To me it spoke of how since she was alone without family that all she had was her knowledge and position that when she lost that no one cared about her, except for Suzy and Jason (a little, and it shows in that scene)--That if you have no one in the world, you have nothing-- one of the many messages and thoughts i got from this movie.
with some movies, you merely watching people get paid to read lines
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In the end of the movie *spoilers*************when her heart stops, jason rips off her hospital gown to administer cpr. In several shots you see Thompsons breasts. At first I was shocked at because it was so sudden and unexpected but then in that context you don't pay the sort of attention you would to that.
To young men who've only seen a naked women's bodies through pornos may be shocked by Ms. Thompson's breasts. They look and act like real flesh. They don't look like upside down plunger cups like most bare women's breasts we see in entertainment.
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My dream is to show my students a set of films, which would definitely include Wit. Among others I would play "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert", "Requiem for a Dream" and "The Machinist". They are indeed very strong films, any of these inappropriate for immature 18 year olds, but watching them can be so incredibly beneficial! Well, I do not want to lose my job so I will not try it. Just a dream:)
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This comment is purely for posterity... but I remember watching Romeo and Juliet in Highschool English (junior or senior year, I don't remember which). That had more provocative nudity than this. (Juliette had her breast briefly exposed as she got out of bed in one scene, the actress at the time was 15). That film was rated G, then placed to M and dropped back to PG solely becuase of that scene, apparently the modern rating is still PG-13. This film is tame by comparison.
shareHere's a real simple solution.
Why don't you watch the film? That way you would know whether you could show it or not.
I can't believe a teacher would ask such a question when it would be simple enough to preview the film yourself and determine whether it would be a problem or not.
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