A Teacher (2013)

A Teacher is not the flop I was expecting. In fact, it has subtle, pleasing beats and moments. The 'dramatic' moments are not punctuated by soundtrack, cinematography, or editing climaxes and the acting is not overwrought. The story, in fact, is - on a realistic level - tense and provocative. In this sense, it feels more European than 'Hollywood.'

the theme is so well known than it is difficult to give to it something new as nuance. but the forbidden relation between teacher and student remains fascinating and this is the point to explore not exactly the subject itself but its sides from different perspectives. in this case the story does not nothing new. a simple story who not touch or convince. decent performances. crisis of a young woman who ignores the limits of her duties. need to discover and to be loved and to understand the other. dialogues. friends. family. and the feeling of the reader in front of the end of a novel with the fall end. it is not a bad movie. or boring. or interesting. only another exercise to present a limit - situation. this is all.

A Teacher (2013)A maddening movie that has some gutsy aspects. But there is so much depending on credibility in the character's motivations, you can't quite ever buy the plot.Which is this: a high school teacher gets involved with one of her students. I know this happens now and then, often to national headlines, so that much I like. But we want to see the psychology of a teacher who would do that, and it isn't here. What the director and writer (and leading actress, to some extent) give us is a young woman who takes risks and is obsessed with the young man she begins having sex with. Big risks. Risks so absurd (like kissing him in the classroom after the other students have left) that you wonder if the movie makers had information that this was true, or if they were winging it with no good instincts about how people would act in this situation.Not that it needs to be terribly rational. Obviously here is a case of a teacher losing track of her place in her job, in her life, and of the consequences ahead. The student we believe, just enjoying a good ride with a nutty teacher, somewhat sincere in his liking her but a little baffled by her obsession. I mean he's only a high schooler, and as much as they know a lot about a lot, they don't know about the convolutions of older people's ability to love, and the complications of that.Anyway, there is a lot offered here and very little achieved. To some extent the last scene of the teacher lying on a borrowed bed sums up all of our feelings. Kind of, oh my god, oh my god. Yeah, of course. But with so much dangling and unexplored, this could have been a powerful, valuable, must see drama.

One of the dumbest movies I have ever seen, I wouldn't waste your time if I were you. There's really no beginning or end. The plot was good, but there were no details, just when it started getting good it was over! I didn't even know if this was a high school student for starters because all they say is freshmen, I was thinking college. They don't explain anything regarding the teacher, how the affair even came about, or anything useful for that matter. This movie could have had potential, but it went nowhere. The only thing I would have to say about it that's good is the directing. Good camera quality. Lets hope they come up with something better!