The fact that Reeves' charecter can apparently live on an income of $0.
He wasn't living well, tho. We never see him eat anything except that pizza. I don't think a movie has to go into specifics about how he's able to keep a place, put clothes on his back, and eat. I thought about those things, but seeing it described in the movie would have made it a little boring.
The school offering a gambling addict, alcoholic, unemployed, unbalanced, self-harming loser a job.
No one else wanted that job, and despite his personal problems (which I don't think they knew it
all), Miss Wilkes knew he was well suited for it. It's hard getting teachers to take inner-city teaching jobs. I knew a man who worked in an inner city school, and he told me he worked there because he couldn't get anything else because of his low grades in college.
Reeves, speeding off after dropping off the two kids at the end, even though he's been in the project and knows that it's a dangerous environment.
And he was corrected on that by one of the moms. However, it was stressed to him the dangers the children faced
after dark, and this was the middle of the day. He still has a lot to learn as a protector of children, tho. You either wait until you see them pass thru the door, or you accompany them inside yourself. This is proper procedure no matter what the environment.
Reeves and Diane Lane just sort of hanging out as white people in the projects like it's no big deal.
I didn't get the feeling they were hanging out there. They both worked there.
The kids are poor and live in the projects yet can some how afford to attend a really nice private school. They seem to get a great education yet we're supposed to still feel concerned about their prospects.
Was the school private? I thought it was a uniformed public school.
Don't you DARE faint Pittypat Hamilton! If Melanie says it's alright, it tis alright!
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