Sunday, November 22, 2009

It's 2009 and I'm still sitting on Mr. Holland's Opus.

Okay, maybe I did fall off the face of the earth for a while. School has been...hmm....shall I say, dicey? That's a word, right? I moved from elementary, which is tough enough, to secondary. Let's face it. Working with teenagers is just plain crazy...important, but crazy.

So, poor Mr. Holland has been sitting there in queue, waiting since June of 2008 for some morsel of attention. That's incredibly embarrassing to say the least.

In the meantime, I've actually seen
Mr. Holland's Opus at least three more times. That would bring my overall viewing of this film up to at least 4 million, give or take. Obviously, something in this story speaks to me. The teacher thing, of course, but there has to be more or I would have relegated it to the drawer where I keep all the other "teacherly" movies I've enjoyed over the years...like Lean On Me and Stand and Deliver. Those are great stories too and are nice to pull out when a little self-pep talk is needed, but Mr. Holland's Opus is more than that. And I think it warrants a real discussion.

I hope there is still someone out there who is willing to discuss.