I watched a movie called Triangle of Sadness recently. I teach a film class here that is based on dialogues from a monthly movie. I don’t choose the movies, so I never know what’s going to be next. It’s pretty interesting that way.
Anyway, I feel like one of the characters in that movie, Carl, is a pretty good example of how confused people are about love.
So you squeeze teaching a class it too? Teaching is a lot of work, outside of class. Folks don't realize how much time the good teachers spend preparing for each class.
Sound like a cool class. How did you get into that? Is this part of a class for teaching English? Who chooses the movies? Goodness you've opened up a lot of questions here.
Love could be so simple, is very simple, until we bring human cultural expectations into it. The tiny boxes again. Hang on, there's a poem in that!
tiny boxes,
chock-a-block with expectations,
our lives today
Teaching is about 90% prep, 8% execution, and 2% discipline/management, or something like that. It’s definitely a lot of work before you even get into the classroom.
I teach quite a few private lessons in the evenings, but none take as much prep time as this movie lesson (watching the movie, transcribing two scenes, building a lesson plan around the language used in each scene).
The person who started the group of English/movie enthusiasts 18 years ago chooses the movies. So far this year we’ve watched She Said, The Exorcist, the original Japanese version of Ikiru, Maverick, The Godfather, Fame, and The Age of Adeline, The Birds, and Licorice Pizza. Next will be Triangle of Sadness.
I got this job because the person who had taught the class for twelve years returned to the States and asked me if I’d be interested in taking it over. Random and simple as that.
You’ve got a poem for everything.😉
I like it.