(there’s no “shit hits the fan” or “modern life is insane” category…I should fix that)
I pretty much hated school growing up. I would have noped out of anything like this straight away…
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Me too.
Nice touch with the big thick text books, I know I’d feel reassured. And possibly quite muscular from carting the things around.
In the Hal Hartley film The Girl From Monday, set in some unspecified but not distant future, one of the characters, Cecile (Sabrina Lloyd), is convicted for having sex with no contractual benefits (for pleasure, in other words). As punishment she is sentenced to “two years hard labour… teaching High School” (her only line, but delivered with massive aplomb, by Edie Falco as the judge).
The school kids are permitted to carry guns and are dosed with distracting drugs to stop them concentrating properly. All lessons are via VR helmets. A particularly good scene has Cecile complaining to the head teacher that the assessment test results are pitifully low. He explains sardonically that how else would they be able to weed out potential troublemakers who score high?
The film is a bit patchy, filmed using digital video, and done on the cheap. For example the same two blokes in robocop outfits do every scene in which the power of the state needs to be demonstrated: riot control, security patrols, arresting Cecile, and quite a lot more. It’s worth a watch… but no Parker Posey sadly.
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