Select one of the movies listed below. (Please contact the instructor if you wish to review a movie that is not on the list.) Each movie listed incorporates adult learning as a central aspect of the plot. After viewing the movie, describe, analyze and review the adult learning experience. What macroenvironmental trend or issue did the experience address, if any? Describe the adult education organization (if applicable), learning activity(ies), the learner(s), the adult educator(s), and the conditions or circumstances in which the learning takes place. What are the social, financial, or political issues that shape the experience? What are the factors that seem to influence learning (either to promote or to inhibit) it? What concepts from the class readings were evident? What is your reaction to the learning experience in the movie? evaluated on:

*Critical description and assessment
*Integration with course readings and discussions
*Judgment of lessons learned, potential application or implications
Snow Falling on Cedars (2000) (PG-13),
Carl, a fisherman in the waters off Washington state, has been found dead, drowned in his own nets, but with a serious head wound. Was he murdered? Post-war anti-Japanese sentiments are still running high, and the local Japanese community provides a murder suspect in the form of Kabuo, another fisherman, who had a grudge against Carl’s family. Ishmael, the small town’s newspaperman, may have the information that would acquit Kabuo, but can he ever put his jilted love for Hatsue (Kabuo’s wife) aside? (2 hr., 6 min.)

Rabbit Proof Fence (2002) (PG),
This is the true story of Molly Craig, a young black Australian girl who leads her younger sister and cousin in an escape from an official government camp, set up as part of an official government policy to train them as domestic workers and integrate them into white society. With grit and determination Molly guides the girls on an epic journey, one step ahead of the authorities, over 1,500 miles of Australia’s outback in search of the rabbit-proof fence that bisects the continent and will lead them home. These three girls are part of what is referred to today as the ‘Stolen Generation.’ (1 hr., 24 min.)

Stanley and Iris (1990) (PG-13). Jane Fonda, Robert DeNiro.
Two blue-collar workers help each other break free of their own personal prisons. For Stanley, the inability to read or write has plagued him all his life. Iris has just lost her husband and is suddenly emotionally paralyzed. Together they help each other to learn, live, and ultimately, to love again. (1 hr., 47 min.)

Lakota Woman (1994) (not rated)
Mary Crow Dog, daughter of a desperately poor Indian family in South Dakota, is swept up in the protests of the 1960s and becomes sensitized to the injustices that society inflicts on her people. She aids the Lakota in their struggle for their rights: a struggle that culminates in an armed standoff with US government forces at the site of an 1890 massacre. (1 hr. 40 min)

Whale Rider (2002) (PG-13)
Whale Rider is set in New Zealand, where the legend has it that the native people came there following their leader, a boy who heroically rode on the back of a whale. From that day forward, tradition has been to give leadership to direct descendants of that leader of old, but tragedy occurs when opposite-sexed twins are born, the girl living, the boy dying, and the mother also not making it through the delivery. The girl, Pai, grows into an adventurous and talented person of her own, but her grandfather has no need for spirited girls to try to be leader. Koro starts a school to teach the olden traditions, and hope he can find a boy among the village to rise to the occasion and show leadership for the people who now have none. All signs point to Pai, but traditions are meant to be upheld. (105 minutes)

Frozen River (2008) (R for some language)
Ray Eddy, an upstate New York trailer mom, is lured into the world of illegal immigrant smuggling when she meets a Mohawk girl who lives on a reservation that straddles the US-Canadian border. Broke after her husband takes off with the down payment for their new doublewide, Ray reluctantly teams up with Lila, a smuggler, and the two begin making runs across the frozen St. Lawrence River carrying illegal Chinese and Pakistani immigrants in the trunk of Ray’s Dodge Spirit. (1 hr. 36 min).

Crash (2004) (Rated R for language, sexual content and some violence.)
People are born with good hearts, but they grow up and learn prejudices. “Crash” is a movie that brings out bigotry and racial stereotypes. The movie is set in Los Angeles, a city with a cultural mix of every nationality. The story begins when several people are involved in a multi-car accident. From that point, we are taken back to the day before the crash, seeing the lives of several characters, and the problems each encounters during that day. An LAPD cop (Matt Dillon) is trying to get medical help for his father, but he is having problems with a black HMO clerk who won’t give his father permission to see another doctor. He in turn takes out his frustration on a black couple during a traffic stop. A socialite (Sandra Bullock) and District Attorney (Brandon Fraser) are carjacked at gunpoint by two black teenagers. Sandra takes out her anger on a Mexican locksmith who is changing the door locks to their home. Later that night, the locksmith is again robbed of his dignity by a Persian store-owner. Many of the characters switch from being bad-person-to-hero in ways that may surprise you. (113 minutes)

The Reader (2008) (Rated R for some scenes of sexuality and nudity)
The Reader opens in post-WWII Germany when teenager Michael Berg becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna, a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are quickly drawn into a passionate but secretive affair. Michael discovers that Hanna loves being read to and their physical relationship deepens. Hanna is enthralled as Michael reads to her from “The Odyssey,” “Huck Finn,” and “The Lady with the Little Dog.” Despite their intense bond, Hanna mysteriously disappears one day and Michael is left confused and heartbroken. Eight years later, while Michael is a law student observing the Nazi war crime trials, he is stunned to find Hanna back in his life – this time as a defendant in the courtroom. As Hanna’s past is revealed, Michael uncovers a deep secret that will impact both of their lives. The Reader is a haunting story about truth and reconciliation, about how one generation comes to terms with the crimes of another. (2 hrs, 4 minutes)

Precious (2009) (Rated for R for child abuse including sexual assault, pervasive language)
Clareece “Precious” Jones is an overweight, illiterate African-American teen in Harlem. Just as she’s about to give birth to her second child, Jones is accepted into an alternative school where a teacher helps her find a new path in her life. (1 hr, 49 minutes)

Higher Learning (1995) (Rated R)
Three freshman students embark on their first semester at fictitious Columbus University, where, in addition to normal adolescent problems, they’re also confronted with serious prejudice, intolerance, racism and sexism among the student body. Former high school track star, Malik, learns that as long as he keeps winning races the university will support him, but as far as his academic life is concerned, they don’t care a bit whether he learns anything at college or not. Kristin Conner, a middle-class white girl from Orange County, discovers that she is ill-prepared for college life and in matters sexual she finds that the male students don’t always accept “no” for an answer. She also finds that her own sexual proclivity is not as clear-cut as she’d always imagined. Remy, a quiet kid from Idaho who has no social skills, turns to the only group who’ll have him–the skinheads. He’s so grateful for their acceptance that he finds he’ll do anything to stay in their good graces. (2 hrs, 7 minutes)

Beasts of the Southern Wild, 2012 (PG-13)
In a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling levee, a six-year-old girl exists on the brink of orphanhood. Buoyed by her childish optimism and extraordinary imagination, she believes that the natural world is in balance with the universe until a fierce storm changes her reality. Desperate to repair the structure of her world in order to save her ailing father and sinking home, this tiny hero must learn to survive unstoppable catastrophes of epic proportions. (1 hr, 31 mins)

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