I saw this movie at a community showing a couple of days ago. I was really, really excited to see it beforehand. It's a documentary described as "tackling the tragic side of our often achievement-obsessed culture, with interviews that explore the hidden world of over-burdened schedules, student suicide, academic cheating, young people who have checked out."
But here is what it was...
About 15 different people saying different versions of the same three things. And those things were:
1) Kids today have too much homework.
2) Schools are educating kids in how to be good test takers over actually educating our children.
3) Homework / school / activities stress out our kids and take a lot of time away from the family.
And it was these same three things over and over and over again.
And I already knew all that stuff anyway so it wasn't eye-opening or interesting to me at all. I think they could have dug a lot deeper into this subject, but they didn't. This film only touches the tip of the iceberg, and I think there was a lot more that could have been done with it.
The lady who put together this film was interviewed on camera a lot, and her children were interviewed throughout. Her children were all stressed out about school and homework to the point that it was giving them headaches and upset stomachs. So, she makes this movie, giving light to these issues... but then, by the end of it, she didn't change anything! Her kids are still stressed out and getting sick!
So, yeah, this movie just left me with a "meh, nothing special" sort of feeling.
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