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Ever felt scared to go outside of your own door? Or to come out and say what you really want, to feel comfortable around the people you try to associate with everyday? Maybe even to tell the truth...

This is exactly the way it is with, "The Freedom Writers", a great movie. It starts out with a disruptive class, who act like they have no feelings, concerns, or problems, but it's the exact opposite; every single person in this class has a problem. Eva Benitez hates white people, because she feels they can do whatever they want, because she feels they are capable of everything, and anything to make the blacks miserable. Another has the same feelings against blacks. It's seems horrible; the classroom is even divided up, the whites and the blacks, the nerds, and the big shots.

Things all change, when they get a new teacher; Mrs.Gruwell. She thinks she has something special, and can switch the whole classroom around, however when the school refuses to give her texts because they feel these kids are "impossible", she gets so frustrated, because she believes this is the reason they're not trying, because they know that people don't believe in them, and just look down upon them.

The music really empathizes the movie, gives it feeling. When there's gang fights, there's exactly the right music at the right time, when the kids are frustrated, when they're happy, when they're getting silly .. it has everything, its perfect!

This movie has excellent actors! The main characters of this film are Hilary Swank who plays as Erin, also know as the teacher Mrs.Gruwell , Patrick Dempsey who plays Erin's husband. Some other characters consist of Scott Glen (Erin's Father), Margaret Campbell (Erin's Co-worker), and also April Lee Hernandez (Eva, a student).

I also think there is a very important theme to this movie , and that is "Never give up" and that would be on Mrs.Gruwells part. This is very self explanatory; she never once gave up on these kids, she even went and got two extra jobs to be able to buy them their very own text books, reading books, and also very nice and expensive field trips. Did it all work out in the end, was she able to flip the tables, and turn each and every person around, does the class all come together as one .. watch the movie to find out !