Friday, November 15, 2013

playing space invaders in a class room

Well, it's been a while since I've last talked about a retro game, so i'll start it up again. So right now, we're watching Freedom Writers.

I've actually never watched this movie before and the movie so far has been really good. It's about this teacher that tries to change the hearts of the kids in her class by being a good teacher and one that will listen and get things straightened out. Tying this into a game was rather hard,  but the one thing that came to mind was Space Invaders.

At first this sounds really stupid and I agree, it does. However, Space Invaders could be taken out of context and be related to this serious movie. In Space Invaders, you play as this ship that shoots a bunch of alien looking things and basically has no story or plot. The objective is to just not die. Well, if we take out the ship and replace it with the teacher, we can see some correspondence. The teacher is fighting off the worries and problems that are plaguing her students. The aliens could represent all the hate that her students feel. And the weapons that the ship uses would be like the lessons and teachings that she does. in order to progress to the next 'level' the teacher must first defeat all the worries in the current level and the boss could represent the lessons in a real life situation. Basically, I guess it would be how the children take what they learned inside and apply it to the outside world. The teacher must avoid the obstacles as well as destroy the bad environment( the invaders). From what I saw in the movie, the moral was that people can always change and a lot of the times, it starts with something small, but affects many people. We could apply this to real life and say that no matter how small of an action that we perform in our everyday life, someone will be impacted by it. Thus all the things we say and do are important and we should always keep that in mind.

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