Synopsis:
Ryan Gosling is Dan Dunn, an 8th grade history teacher ignoring the curriculum binder to teach his students dialectics. He coaches the girls' basketball team. He has a junky apartment with a cat. His parents and friends ask him about his "in progress" novel.
One of his students finds him passed out with his crack pipe in the girl's locker room toilet. This circumstance makes it a little bit more difficult to intervene when this student starts to hang out with his dealer.
IMDB site
Official movie site
Here's the NY Times rave
Metacritic says "universal acclaim"
So this is probably worth watching. I guess there's something to be said for a movie that doesn't portray the teacher as unambiguous hero, but the Gosling character still perpetuates the heroic teacher ideal. He thinks he's saving someone and something and changing lives. I don't know that a society that builds the hero/martyr complex of teachers is a good thing.
Broken Social Scene did the music. Onlike some other indie rock types, you can actually tell during the movie that's them, because it sounds like them. I'm not sure if there are new songs or not...their things tend to bleed together a bit for me.
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