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This is the blog of The Renaissance Charter School's senior elective class, "Delving Into Documentaries." This blog was put together in the spring semester. In the fall semester, we watched Food, Inc.; Forks Over Knives; GasLand; and An Inconvenient Truth. Students wrote reflection papers, journal entries, and essays. Instead of these assignments, this semester, students will write on this blog. After each film, they will post a review/critique. Each week, they will post a response to a controversial question related to the film we are currently studying. Visit our Wiki to learn more!

Sunday, March 31, 2013

Writing Task #4 (Spring Break): Monica & David


The central idea of the documentary is all people are equal. Many types of people are stereotyped or told they are unable to do things that normal people do. This Film is telling the public that instead of stopping people from reaching their potential, we should help them to reach it. Even if Monica and David need help to do certain tasks at age 35, it does not mean they need to be looked down upon in the streets or tormented about how they stutter. They have found love and deserve to be happy, no one has the right to take that from them.

The only bias I could think of is how Monica’s parents did not really let the couple do things for themselves. They did go to a cooking class, and David did his own medicine once. However, they did not have there own honeymoon, because the parents were there. Monica and David are woken up in the morning and Monica doesn't comb her own hair. I wish I was shown more of them struggling or the incapability of Monica and David to do things instead of just being told they can’t.

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