What it's really about

Rating: 10/10 (14 December 2004)

This movie isn't really about the love the teacher has for his students. This movie is really about society, but mostly about abuse of authority. Technically a teacher or principal should love kids to be able to do their job. In the movie the results of this abuse are apparent specially when the school burns down, the name of the orphanage is also a dead give away for the theme of this movie. It is quite obvious that the principal is getting his revenge on society by channeling his anger through the kids. The teacher I think is trying to break the vicious circle of this abuse by giving the students confidence, trust, hope and dreams saving them on numerous occasions from the abuse and allowing them to open up.
I found it was an excellent movie that had some very profound impact on me having lived something similar in college.