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High School

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High School is a 1968 documentary feature by Frederick Wiseman.It documents life in a fairly ordinary high school, specifically Northeast High School in Philadelphia. The film depicts various standard school activities, such as classroom lecture, gym, band practice, and lunch. The running theme is the role of high school in imposing conformity and obedience in American teenagers, as authoritarian teachers stamp out their students' individuality and turn them into automatons. The Vietnam War is a lurking subtext, as shown when a former student and current soldier visits an old coach, or in the last scene when a teacher reads a letter from a former student serving in Vietnam.Wiseman made a second high school documentary, High School II, in 1994.
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Done in cinema verite style, although Wiseman disliked that term, preferring "observational documentary". In any case, the film eschews standard documentary tropes like a Narrator or Talking Heads, instead using a fly-on-the-wall technique to document what's happening.
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Day in the Life: Structured to give an impression of a single day at a high school, with the camera arriving in a car in the morning, lunch in the middle of the movie. Filming actually took five weeks.
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High School: Yep! Apparently the teachers of Northeast High liked the film when they first saw it and didn't realize it was supposed to be a negative portrait of oppressive authority until they saw critics' reviews.
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Lennon Specs: The one student who plays at rebelling against authority, calling Northeast High a "garbage can" for failing to engage with social injustices, is appropriately wearing tinted Lennon Specs.
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Epilogue Letter: The film ends with a teacher reading out for the students a letter from a former Northeast High student who has gone off to fight in Vietnam. The student in the letter says that if he's killed his insurance money can go to a college scholarship. The teacher then says, in the last line of the movie, "Now when you get a letter like this, to me it means that we are very successful at Northeast High School. I think you will agree with me." The message as framed by Frederick Wiseman seems to be that a young man going off to die in a Vietnamese rice paddy is the natural endpoint of the enforced conformity of high school.
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Men Act, Women Are: The gynecologist giving a staggeringly inappropriate lecture to a hall full of boys about women's anatomy says "Nature sets us up so that the male is the aggressive and the female is the passive."
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Cool Teacher: One teacher, notably quite a bit younger than the others, is trying to be. She uses "The Dangling Conversation" by Simon & Garfunkel in a poetry lesson, reading Paul Simon's lyrics before playing the song. Notably the film cuts away without showing if the teacher managed to engage her students.
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Deliberately Monochrome: Filmed in black-and-white as was typical of the cinema verite documentaries of the day. Here the grainy b&w photography helps to emphasize the prison-like nature of a public high school.
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Instructional Film: There's a sex-ed movie played for girls. We see a surreal sequence in which the sex-ed movie demonstrates the effects of gonorrhea by showing a woman's ovaries and Fallopian tubes becoming grossly bloated.
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Conversation Cut: A teacher lecturing asks "Are there any questions?" Then there's a cut to an entirely different teacher in a different room asking "Any questions?" before kicking off a typing test.
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Match Cut: A shot of a girl taking practice swings at a softball on a tee cuts to a worker in the cafeteria chopping meat.
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