picketing this... by all accounts .... moronic film, have their kids in.... well, what exactly? Private schools? Posh leafy-green suburban public schools? They were falsely portraying themselves as NYC PS parents? What, on earth, is she talking about? Private school parents are really going to picket a film that trashes the public schools they themselves have... rightly or wrongly... spurned? Well to do suburbanites are going to take the train in from Scarsdale, or wherever, at night, so they can annoy Viola Davis by pretending to be NYC PS parents?
2. Gyllenhaal... if she is to be taken literally... appears to think that all teachers are organized into one "teachers union". It's not an "anti-union" movie but "there are huge problems with the teachers union". She just spent what sounds like a number of months on the set with Davis yet has no idea what Davis' views are re. politics and unionism?
Sounds like they both gave a great deal of political and philosophical thought to the complexities of the issues facing public schools and the efforts of government and private corporations to "reform" them.
Sheeezz. Seems to me the only thing dumber than the movie was the cast itself.
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