She takes it … way too far. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Your email address will not be published. There is a list of small changes, some tweaks to the characters, a few added jokes, but this is very much the same movie told a second time. Required fields are marked *. The Kindergarten Teacher. The metaphor of teacher as a maternal figure is a common thread in education literature, however, so we are primed for this discussion in ways that even magnificent television writers are not. is Ms. Gyllenhaal’s performance, whose quality makes us resist until it’s possible. Lisa sees herself as the hero, but I think the movie does, too. In The Kindergarten Teacher, Maggie Gyllenhaal stars as Lisa Spinelli, attentive educator by day, wannabe artist by night. Unlike, for example, Blue Car, where the teacher is a predator who grooms a vulnerable high school student (also through encouraging her writing) into one of the most uncomfortable coerced sex scenes I recall. I too love when movies make me think and complicate the conventional knowledge that most people blindly accept. The Kindergarten Teacher constructs an ending that evokes the same sort of ambiguity as Whiplash–if viewers choose to read it that way. By the end she’s a, well … I don’t want to spoil it, but let’s just call her a social vigilante. In a career which has often been overshadowed by her brother, Maggie Gyllenhaal seems to have found her opportunities limited. This takes everyone out of their “appropriate” roles. Hence, the only reason to watch The Kindergarten Teacher is Ms. Gyllenhaal’s performance, whose quality makes us resist until it’s possible. When we first meet Lisa Spinelli she’s a caring, patient kindergarten teacher in Staten Island who takes a weekly poetry class in Manhattan. Open to something new, Lisa sleeps with Simon, an incident with a minimal emotional impact when compared with her new discovery: Jimmy Roy (Parker Sevak), a 5-year-old boy with an advanced ability to compose poems in the spur of the moment. Ha! It would be reductive to try to force The Kindergarten Teacher into either of these dichotomized modes–“good” or “bad.” Instead, this film presents a more complex argument along the lines of what I’ve seen in Whiplash (2014), Damien Chazelle’s magnificent film. As you state, Lisa Spinelli takes inappropriate steps to preserve Jimmy’s talents. Was I just reading into the shower? Written by Sara Colangelo. Sure, why the hell not, especially when either version is so great. Yet, the film is more complex than to suggest with complete clarity that Jimmy is better off without her. Sara Colangelo’s The Kindergarten Teacher, an American remake of the 2014 Israeli drama of the same name directed by Nadav Lapid, never really earned my admiration. In-depth movie review, featured posts, and advertisements. [SPOILER ALERT] The end of The Kindergarten Teacher suggests that the teacher’s fears that the world will erase Jimmy are coming true. https://www.allmovie.com/movie/the-kindergarten-teacher-v603594 There’s a bit of comedy when she starts passing Jimmy’s work at her poetry class (to the point that she ignites the romantic interest of her teacher, played by Gael Garcia Bernal) but this is more quality assurance testing than stolen glory. This is exactly why we need to work together to develop a revisionist series focused on a teacher–something like the Danish series Rita but even better!!! This causes Nikhil and Simon to be angry at her for disparate reasons. It seems that she feels that she has already “lost” them to a culture that hammers out creativity and individuality, and she does not want that liberty to be taken away from a student in whom she sees an extraordinary amount of potentional to go against the deadening fate most fall into. She does these meek eyes at the same time that airs an exasperating expression that mirrors a frivolous profoundness. Starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gael Garcia Bernal, Parker Sevak, Ajay Naidu, Rosa Salazar, Daisy Tahan, Sam Jules. Are his methods effective? Clearly, Spinelli is obsessed with the young boy because of his talent and acts in ways that are definitely out of bounds legally and ethically. However, and sooner than later, this admiration turns into an obsession. Filipe Freitas This is a big contrast to the final sequence. The story focuses on a talented drummer who falls under the sway of Fletcher and suffers for it. I felt like it got a little sexual when she showered and it lost me there a bit. Of course, maybe I am projecting…, oh interesting, I see that. One of her young students, Jimmy (Parker Sevak) behaves like a regular five year-old most of the time, but now and again he goes into something of a trance-like state and starts reciting poetry. It was clear from the very beginning of the film that the teacher is very sensual in the classroom. I’m such a simpleton. Time and again we see her eating bland-looking vegetables. Lisa Spinelli (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is focused on developing Jimmy Roy’s (Parker Sevak) talent while no one else has either recognized it or taken his poetry seriously. Her daughter seems to have abandoned all ambition to social media. Is he a bad teacher? Is it worth it? It is also hard to put up with the ending, which feels forced. People want to rest assured in the appearance of “children being children.” That way, the hierarchy is in tact and children aren’t trying to topple or subvert the system in which they know nothing and adults know it all. A kindergarten teacher in New York becomes obsessed with one of her students whom she believes is a child prodigy. I was discussing with someone this morning via text about how her exposed breast (in the “coitus interruptus scene”) serves as a maternal symbol (she does leave her husband on the sofa to go answer the call from the student), and her body is not revealed much when she has sex with her poetry teacher. Yes. Well, the maternal breast was actually Elizabeth Currin’s insight! The Kindergarten Teacher constructs an ending that evokes the same sort of ambiguity as Whiplash–if viewers choose to read it that way. This is what I wrote about Whiplash in the latest edition of The Hollywood Curriculum: Teacher in the Movies (pages 81-82): On the surface, Fletcher (J.K. Simmons in an Ocsar-winning performance) is clearly a bad teacher who berates students mercilessly and even bullies one into committing suicide at a fiercely competitive conservatory. Her son plans to join the military against her wishes. For several months I’ve been meaning to watch Sara Colangelo’s second feature. I don’t know, which is one reason among many this film is brilliant. Rapidly, Lisa nurtures a profound admiration for the kid, who she thinks meritorious of special attention in this materialistic world we all live. The Kindergarten Teacher is probably the only movie about poetry with an ending as tense as any thriller.
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