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Title: Why not give the teacher's role to a black actor?
Review: This movie missed the opportunity to explore the important issue of racism and race relations by making the scarred Vietnam Vet teacher a white man. The character in the book is a black man, and a wonderful character. By using Kevin Spacey, the director missed an entire dimension of the teacher's interaction with the child and his mother. Socioeconomic differences were also important, but race was as well.
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