SpEd Hearts (Assignment 3)

The story revolves in three distinct plots that are jammed together.  The first plot is in the Montessori school.  There depict the nostalgic situations of SpEd schools and how the teachers adjust their patience and understanding to their students.  The next plot talks about the life and circumstances of Rina (Ciara Sotto), one of the promising SpEd teachers.  She is a single mother.  She lives with her father until Jonathan (boyfriend) came into the scene.  She loves her job so much as well as she loves the people around her.  She came to a dilemma where she has to choose among her job as a special child teacher, job offering in Canada, love life, and her father.  At the end, she manages to put everything in order.  The last plot is about Rina’s co-teacher.  He is a gay but also a family man—with six children!  His identity is the conflict as he tries to balance everything without giving up one of his personality.  His struggle arose when his son caught him dating with his boyfriend.  The challenge there is how to win again his son and how to fix his family problems.  His last resort is to explain to his children about his hidden side and to break up with his boyfriend.

In my perspective, I am deeply moved by the school setting—and the people around it.  I can remember my high school days when we attended Dolefil social responsibility program for special children.  My emotions were coming out (catharsis) in every Mike and Haven scene—they are two of my favorite characters.  I could still remember way back when I interviewed persons with Down’s syndrome and with nepotism.  Yes, they are not as good listeners and responders as we expect but as I talk to them, I come to realize that they really are very special in the sense that they are very innocent.  They are filled with love as well as they only express love in a different way.  I come to realize that these persons are really blessed.  They are free from earthly things, from errors, and from material sins.  It is now clear to me the difference of being insane from being special—that special persons are sane persons but with different perspective from an average human.  The movie was arranged in different plots with different struggles for the viewers to understand where the characters emotions come from.  Therefore, this setting has led to the catharsis.