The Wave.

during one of our lesson, we where subjected to having strict class rules. the rules-
- one space apart.
- stand up to ask or answer
- students must answer
- stand up when asking another stundent.

we watched the film "Wave" in the lesson. the films is based on a true story, where the teacher tries to explain to his students the atmosphere in the 1930's Nazi-Germany ,the teacher initiates a daring experiment. He declares himself leader of a new movement, called 'The Wave'. Inspired, he proclaims ideas about Power, Discipline and Superiority. His students are strikingly willing to follow him. Soon the entire school is under the spell of 'The Wave'. Anyone who refuses to be a part of the Movement, faces threats or worse. the teacher himself gets carried away by his own experiment. Or has it turned into something more than an experiment? The teacher takes it too far and calls an assembly with all of the wave members,  during the assembly he talks about how the wave will take over Germany, just as the Nazis did. When one of the students don’t agree with what is going on he is subject to being carried to the front of the assembly, the teacher decides his fate, only to say that what they are doing is wrong and it must stop. One by one the students realise what they have been doing for the past week and that it has gone too far. But one student doesn’t want the wave to end, pulling out a gun on the teacher and telling him to continue the wave otherwise he will shoot the teacher.  


sam x