| Despite the lurid cover photo picture of the high school teacher and student shot in soft light that would make “Yentl” look realistic, "A High School Teacher" is not an exploitive picture at all, there is one attempted rape scene but no nudity. Instead it is like "Swimfan" or "The Crush." The girl looks crazy but doesn't give you a reason to be fearful of her until the very end. The teacher seems nice enough, but has that loser aura usually seen in teachers who date their students. The teacher has a secret he is hiding from the world while the girl has an even bigger secret. It does not help that the school's warden has the school locked down with security cameras everywhere "Sliver" style. The school warden is abusive and is especially hard against school girl when school girl does not go home for the holidays.
Events unfold when the school teacher can't stop moping from accidentally killing a guy on a rugby field while the school girl comes around his apartment and they have a make believe husband/wife life together on an abandoned boat. Then the chick goes crazy not to "Bittersweet Life" proportions but which almost makes up for its lack of excitement during the first half of the movie. The twist at the end is nice and explains why she is so distant and guarded about her home life. But you have to waddle through a lot of boring seduction scenes and wanting to tell the school teacher to get over killing that one guy years ago and to quit hiding out at a private school.
Overall this is a move that is based on lies and secrets to hides its basic flaw of not having a noteworthy story to tell. The teacher/student relationship angle is taboo in a way but it feels like that they deserve each other due to how they behave.
|
Quick Takes:
