Journey To School Documentary Analysis

This inspiring documentary movie was made in 2013 and directed by Pascal Plisson. The documentary has duration of 75 minutes. The movie is a non-fiction film based on four children from Kenya, Morocco, India, and Argentina. “Too often we forget how lucky we are to go to school,” it says. In some parts of the world, the journey to school is extremely challenging. This documentary shows that logistical support for education is basically non-existent. Rural areas in third world countries without transportation forces students to walk more than two hours in one direction just to get to school. Not only that, when the children went to school, they passed a lot of challenging obstacles. In certain part of the world, the journey to school is an obstacle …show more content…
She lives with her parents in the rural and mountainous part of Morocco. Zahira’s grandmother is seen regretting because she couldn’t get an education in her life. She strongly encourages Zahira to attend school, despite that the transportation problem is the largest problem in the area and also, the school is far from their village, so every Monday, Zahira and her two friends have to walk 22 kilometers challenging journey to school on the dangerous Atlas mountains. In her way to school, Zariha carried a live chicken to exchange for snacks. The challenging four hours journey to school has just …show more content…
It is a very touching and inspiring movie. Jackson and his sister are singing and running on their way to school to make it on time, but elephants are in their way. They had to avoid elephant stampede by changing the paths and continuing on to school. One of Zariha’s friends hurt her feet along the way, but she didn’t give up. They took a break, then continued the journey to school. Carlito and his sister didn’t give up because of the challenging mountain. Carlito’s sister said, “be care full it is dangerous.” Carlito knows how to handle the horse, and he passed all the dangerous part. Finally, Samuel and his brothers are stuck on their way because they got a flat tire on the wheelchair. One of this bothers had to find someone who fixes wheelchair. After they fixed the wheelchair, they keep pulling and pushing until they made in to school. In those entire obstacles no one gave up. Finally all students made to school in time in difficult situation. This documentary movie is based on true stories, and the children are not paid actors. This is the life they live every single day and I can see how hard it is. Those children are my heroes. I believe that, if most children in the world get a chance to watch this movie in fact, not only children everybody, we can learn a lot of things from it. Especially, this documentary movie is clearly made for people who want to donate for education in the rural area of the