Movie #551 "The Wave" hooked me from the first minute, with the loud, hard rock music playing in the teacher's car on his way to school in Germany. He enjoys being a popular teacher, and he finds he is stuck teaching an autocracy class for project week. He tries to switch with the teacher who is teaching anarchy but no luck so he decides to jazz it up a bit. It was tough going with the subtitles because they talked really fast, but once you get used to it, it kept my interest all the way to the very end. It certainly is controversial and should offer a lot of things to talk about --- some philosophical about how far a teacher should go to prove a point, why people might be attracted to autocracy, how Germans feel about the tragic mark on history their dictators made, bullying, and many more. I recommend this as an excellent thought piece, even though you may guess some of the twists and turns along the way.
I rated it 4 out of 5 stars.
The Wave
Die Welle
(2008) NR
To give his students a real-world example of how dictatorships can grow powerful, a high school teacher starts a social experiment that gives some of his students a strong advantage while leaving others subservient and powerless.
Genre:Dramas, Foreign Movies, Thrillers, Dramas based on real life, Foreign Dramas, Foreign Thrillers, German Movies
This movie is:Cerebral, Controversial
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