Waiting For Superman Reflection

In the documentary film, Waiting for Superman by Davis Guggenheim, it depicts the story of several kids and their families on a journey to find better education than what is being taught in the tattered public school system. Through this film it allowed us to see into the minds of the student, the parent, the teacher, and the officials leading the education system today; giving us an important viewpoint on the way schooling is to be further handled in America. This analysis will point out the two strongest parts of the documentary, followed by the disappointing weakness helping support its main idea that “education is the way out.” First, we look at the meaningful message that is given to the viewer, and what it outlines for them. Waiting for Superman’s call to action tackles one of the most important topics in the United States, “What do we need to do in order to improve our education system?” Not only does this film give numerous examples of what is wrong. For example, low income areas are influencing bad education while the thing needed to succeed is a good education, it is increasingly hard for parents to get children in to good schools, and how different each child is in their learning method. But it also offers insightful solutions to a vast majority of these problems, which may in fact be real useful in the long run. Unfortunately it shows that most of these reforms in schooling have been prevented due to the cruel system that was created in a time where the majority of Americans did not need a college education to have a career, but the hero …show more content…
The message that, “education is a way out,” was not easily received due to the poor usage of pathos. If Guggenheim may have cut some parts of that out and added in more ethos and logos, then this documentary would reach its full potential, and possibly be the difference in making up ones