Year: 2009
Director: Leo Flander
Writers: Leo Flander, Darcy Moran, Finn Stewart, Alois Wittwer
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Trailer: link
Review by: Marina Antunes
Rating: 7 out of 10
I was really impressed with the trailer for Leo Flander’s The Fourth Pillar. A story of a dystopian future in which the government is brainwashing their youth via their education system, the trailer hinted a promising film with an intriguing, if not all together new, premise.
The film begins with a PSA outlining the advantage of the new government run schools and follows up with an introduction to Rheya, one of the film’s central characters. She’s left school and turned to the government schools in hopes of giving herself a better chance in the world. Things start off badly when she meets the head master Dr. Francis Staedler, a man who comes across as more of a military commander than a teacher and...
Director: Leo Flander
Writers: Leo Flander, Darcy Moran, Finn Stewart, Alois Wittwer
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Marina Antunes
Rating: 7 out of 10
I was really impressed with the trailer for Leo Flander’s The Fourth Pillar. A story of a dystopian future in which the government is brainwashing their youth via their education system, the trailer hinted a promising film with an intriguing, if not all together new, premise.
The film begins with a PSA outlining the advantage of the new government run schools and follows up with an introduction to Rheya, one of the film’s central characters. She’s left school and turned to the government schools in hopes of giving herself a better chance in the world. Things start off badly when she meets the head master Dr. Francis Staedler, a man who comes across as more of a military commander than a teacher and...
- 7/5/2010
- QuietEarth.us
The dystopian future put forth by Leo Flander’s The Fourth Pillar rests somewhere between the very real (and contemporary) The Wave and 1984.
In the near future, the New State Government reigns supreme and in one of its attempts to better the world, it introduces the New State Education Initiative which aims to provide the lower classes with good, free education. On the surface, this looks like a step in the right direction: get troubled teens off the street, teach them new skills and spit them out after a few years as state drones with skills to enter society and give something back but as these things usually work out, it’s never quite as good as it appears on the surface. Behind the uniforms and high walls of State School E-42, the students are getting ready to rebel.
Flander’s film looks great and I love this story but...
In the near future, the New State Government reigns supreme and in one of its attempts to better the world, it introduces the New State Education Initiative which aims to provide the lower classes with good, free education. On the surface, this looks like a step in the right direction: get troubled teens off the street, teach them new skills and spit them out after a few years as state drones with skills to enter society and give something back but as these things usually work out, it’s never quite as good as it appears on the surface. Behind the uniforms and high walls of State School E-42, the students are getting ready to rebel.
Flander’s film looks great and I love this story but...
- 5/17/2010
- QuietEarth.us
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