Tuesday 24 February 2009

13 and other thoughts

The following description is the plot of the four Film Awards Nominee 13 (Academy/Bafta/Golden Globe (best actress)/Golden Globe(best supporting-actress)

"Brace yourself" (Rolling Stone) for a raw, revealling insight into urban adolescence that's is so intense and realistic, "it's impossible to turn away" (Interview Managzine)

Anxiously trying to fit into the peer-pressre cooker environment of junior high, thirteen-year-old Tracy (Evan Rachel Wood) goes to shocking lengths in order to befriend Evie (Co-writer, Nikki Read), the most popular girl in school. Now hte two are inseparable and incorrigible - leaving Tracy's desparate mother (Academy Award Winner Holly Hunter) powerless to rescue her from a whirlwind of drugs, sex and crime.



What is more?

Recently, Jade Goody's dying affair is continuously becoming the first lead on the newspaper. There's one point I found strange, the mum of two keeps saying that she wants her boys to study at private school until 16.

Indeed I heard some local teens saying that the private schools are full of materials girls and violent boys. And according to her, these private school kids' behaviour just like the film 13 portraits.

Bearing the doubt in mind, I talked with one local elder named Brigitte from West London. The lady told me that she quite understands Jade Goody's idea.

"There're some private school do get kids achieving better results than government ones. Though some of the governmental schools are also good." Brigitte said.

Speaking about how the private schools functions, she mentions that the private ones employ more teacher, so they spend more time with individual student.

The schools possesses better facilities and provide more chances for kids to broaden their vision.

Other attractions are some of the private schools are focusing on cultivating pupils to enter elite universities such as Cambridge and Oxford.

These tutors just simply understand Cambridge and Oxford mentality, and how the process will be end up with.

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