It’s a Battle for Education in ‘Won’t Back Down’
A two-hour-long movie would be expected to have its high points and low points, but KIDS FIRST! youth film critic Anthony Aranda says his favorite “part” is, actually, the entire two hours. The 10-year-old sees this as a film that, he says, “can teach people a lot.”
And this Twentieth Century Fox release has sparked some discussion by parents who, also, want to make sure their kids’ schools are the best they can be. In today’s economic climate of budget cuts, it’s a strong reminder of how important education is.
Won’t Back Down
Reviewed by Anthony Aranda
(See his full review on video.)
This movie is awesome. I love it because it has lots of emotion and it’s all because a kid has a terrible school and needs a new one so her mom and a teacher help, and I think that is great.
This movie is all about a kid who has a terrible school. So her mom and a teacher who works at the school think it’s a bad school, so they go against the school to try to make a better one. They have to go through a lot to help the mom’s daughter as well as the other kids at the school.
Some of the main characters in the movie are Jamie (the mom, played by Maggie Gyllenhaal), Malia (the daughter, played by Emily Alyn Lind), Nona and Michael. My favorite character is Jamie because she cares so much about her daughter that she works very hard to make a new school for her daughter and to shut down the other school named Adams. How she does this is by writing down tons of paperwork, and instead of sleeping she has to go to every house to see if they could team up with her. Luckily, she has a partner named Nona.
I could not pick a favorite part because the movie is so good that the whole movie is my favorite part. If I have to pick a favorite, I would probably say when Jamie has a big party to try to convince people to go against the school. There are cookies, a news team, shirts, FREE rulers and, to top it all off, Jamie gives a speech on why they should shut down Adams and build a new school.
I would recommend this movie for ages 7 and up because it’s really made for an older audience. I still like it a lot and I think that my brother might like it, too, and he’s 7, so 7 and up is good. The moral of the movie is really good and can teach people a lot. Go out and see this movie; it comes out in theaters on Sept. 28.
