Nonureva Really Surprised!

MusicChat It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Aspen Orson There is definitely an excellent idea hidden in the background of the film. Unfortunately, it's difficult to find it.

JohnHowardReid Set in a small, isolated Canadian town during the Great Depression of the 1930s, "Why Shoot the Teacher?" was superbly photographed on natural locations. Furthermore, it tells a true story. This is a combination that certainly holds the interest, but there is more: Led by Bud Cort and Samantha Eggar, all the players comes across as real people in real situations. Thanks to these compelling performances, the actual dramatic and comic incidents portrayed in this slice of rural life come across with real impact.The film is also blessed with a delightful period music score and clever sound effects. It's certainly an odd film from director Silvio Narizzano, obviously lensed over a long period of time on a tight budget, but containing few of the director's usual tricks. Perhaps that's all to the good. This movie certainly holds its own against more widely touted but similar films.

jana_sr this movie is about a young man, Max Brown who goes to a farming town to teach. I believe this movie does portray the prairies and the people in the 1920s and 1930s because it shows the life of a person (Max Brown) and others who try to make a living during the Great Depression. It shows the climate and weather conditions of the prairies, and how farmers struggled to harvest corp during those climates, and survive on scarce amount of food, water, etc. Max Brown lives through poor living conditions and a poor salary, just like most other Canadians would have done to support themselves or their family. he works like this so he can pay back the money his brother had given him. He talks about his friend who tried to go to Vancouver to find a job but he didn't make it, and also other people who ride the rails. this movie shows that many people did not except charity in anyway because it was shameful to receive any type of relief. the movie also shows how socialism was confronted by Canadians back then. Therefore from all the points above and many others you can conclude that the movie portrays Canada during the Great Depression.

A N I found this movie to be very dull and uninteresting. It takes place in 1935 and is about the life of a school teacher, Max Brown. The story follows his life as he moves from his home in Toronto, where he did not have a job to the praries where a job was being offered. Upon his arrival he finds the living conditions to be very harsh. Primarily the weather is very cold and secondly food is a scarcity. Some other things he finds is that he has to live in the schoolhouse, he is paid very little and his students are horrible. Max's life is very difficult with all the new experiences and people he meets but for some reason he stills returns for another year.

Q. L. "Why Shoot the Teacher" was a believable depiction of Canada during the Great Depression period. Max Brown travels to the prairies for a teaching position in a school house. Before this period, he would have had a job in the city as a teacher, however since it was the period of the "roaring twenties", many people lost jobs and were forced to look elsewhere or die penniless. The prairie folk had little to no money and their children helped gain as much money as possible by catching gopher tails for 20 cents apiece, delivered by the government. The crops were poor due to the drought on the prairies, the dust storm, and the grasshopper plague. Many of these elements were depicted in the movie, and thus it is a believable depiction.