For most of its runtime, This Teacher plays things close to the chest. In its tale of a vacation gone bad, director/co-writer Mark Jackson flirts with different ideas and themes, only to switch up the plot the moment the film feels like it’s about to settle into place. It’s a good tactic in making This Teacher maintain a sense of intrigue, but once Jackson shows his hand in the final act, he exposes himself as a filmmaker better suited to build-up than following things through. After taking the shape of several different genres and styles, Jackson and co-writer Dana Thompson’s screenplay ends up becoming a reductive political statement, one that’s proud to declare itself a “post-Trump” film in its look at ignorance and hatred.
Not that there’s anything wrong with being political or direct, but execution matters, and This Teacher’s execution feels like...
Not that there’s anything wrong with being political or direct, but execution matters, and This Teacher’s execution feels like...
- 1/28/2019
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
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