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A life lesson 
Co-production between USA, Kenya and UK, and directed by Justin Chadwick (Mandela: The Way to Freedom), A life lesson promises to thrill with a true story.
In a village in Kenya, Maruge (Oliver Litondo) hears on the radio the announcement of free education for all. Having not had the opportunity to study in the past, the 84-year-old man – a veteran of the Mau Mau tribe who fought to free Kenya from the British – knocks on the primary school door and waits for a chance to learn to to read. Rejected at first, Maruge does not give up: already in school uniform and a small bag over her shoulder, she asks for a place again and insists until she is accepted by teacher Jane (Naomie Harris). Amidst memories of the painful past, Maruge has to face the revolt and threats from the authorities, from the residents from the region and the parents of the students, who were unhappy about the fact that an elderly person was accepted into a class of six-year-old children. age.
Despite the bad choice of the title in Portuguese - it would be more interesting one that comes close to the original, The First Grader –, the feature film presents us with a plot of overcoming difficulties that, to our relief, is far removed from the formula “self-help to watch”.
A lot could be said about the beauties of this movie. Whether in relation to the touching plot, without ever slipping into corny sentimentality; or else on the beautiful closed planes, capable of causing the most diverse sensations and expressing more than words. I prefer, however, to emphasize the strength of the characters and the delivery of the actors, aspects capable of making the viewer shiver. The protagonists – the elderly Maruge and the teacher Jane – place determination as the basis for making changes and point to education as the main tool for this.
Through well-situated flashbacks, we enter Maruge's past and are confronted with the shocking reality of the struggle for freedom in the former British colony. Extreme cruelty and the most inhumane conditions is what Maruge encountered in the detention camps in the 1950s, after having his wife and children cruelly murdered. Freedom came to Kenya, life went on. The past, however, has never been completely extinguished and remains a aching wound, as well as a historical debt.
A life lesson it is the story of a struggle that spans generations. Maronge's struggle to overcome her past, go to school and learn to read; Jane's struggle for the love of education; the daily struggle of children in the face of the precarious conditions of the school, in which five students share a desk and so many others study sitting on the floor. But also, it is an inspiring story of conquest, bearing an undeniable truth: “learning only ends when we have land in our ears”.
Datasheet
A Lesson in Life (The First Grader) – 104 min.
USA / Kenya / United Kingdom – 2010
Directed by: Justin Chadwick
Screenplay: Ann Peacock
Cast: Naomie Harris, Oliver Litondo, Tony Kgoroge, Vusi Kunene, Alfred Munyua, Shoki Mokgapa.
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Questions:
1. After reading the review, fill in the table below:
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2. The review features a summary of the movie and the author's comments on that movie. Circle the excerpts that summarize the plot of the film and highlight the excerpts that present the author's comments on the object reviewed.
3. Identify the negative review made by the reviewer about the film:
4. Identify the alternative in which the underlined word was correctly interpreted in the square brackets:
The) "despite the bad choice of the title in Portuguese…”. [concerning]
b) “… without ever slipping into sentimentality mushy…”. [appealing]
c) “… the daily struggle of children in the face of conditions precarious from school…” [appropriate]
d) “… bearer of a truth indisputable…”. [disturbing]
5. Reread this excerpt:
"The past, although, has never been completely extinct and remains as a wound that hurts, in addition to a historical debt.”
The sense of the highlighted connective will change significantly if it is replaced by:
a) however
b) however
c) however
d) for that
6. Review the information contained in the “Technical Data” part. Then identify the purpose for which they are presented:
7. transcribe from review a example of using the comma for:
a) perform the inversion in the order of terms:
b) perform the insertion of terms:
By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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