I don't understand this movie.

This movie is the Hollywood holy grail. It is a low budget, one location movie that will cost next to nothing to make. If it made $10 million dollars in DVD and television sales, they came out way ahead. The problem with a movie like this is that it is generally just a few people sitting around talking to each other. I started to get quite restless around the thirty minute mark. I stuck it out and found it to be a satisfactory movie, a 5 on the IMDB scale. Good enough to have seen once, but I don't believe I'll ever watch it again.

The movie is different because it doesn't pander to today's popular conception of what a science fiction film should be and instead tells a beautifully written, original story in a way that almost pulls the viewer into the film.

It isn't an action film, there's no CGI, just a riveting tale that leaves the viewer saddened that such a beautiful story is only a work of fiction. It's storytelling at its finest.

Obviously some viewers want action and eye-candy and don't care if the plot is hackneyed boilerplate.

Personally, I think it's a good movie because it makes me think and I think the other teachers are not just cardboard cutouts but are pretty fleshed out characters. There also frankly aren't many movies like this, where all your attention is on a handful of characters that are in one room, and that's not any horror or action.

But it's also not the kind of movie everyone likes. That being said, just because someone doesn't like a movie doesn't necessarily make it a bad movie. For example, I'm not a fan of Forrest Gump but I can recognize it as a good movie. It's like watching lawyers debate the law. Some people like it and find the logical puzzles, interpretations and debates fascinating, others don't.