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adorocinema
  • 12/26/2024
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00:01My father was an angry man.
00:08I'm not a bad person, I'm just like him.
00:16Nathan Williams, you're under arrest.
00:22I'm here to see Nathan Williams.
00:24Are you family?
00:25No, I'm his teacher.
00:28You don't belong here and we're gonna get you out.
00:31Do you have any family I can call?
00:35No one.
00:38You gotta get back in school.
00:40You have a convicted felon living with you.
00:43I'm a poor little homeless boy, I'm a charity case.
00:45Would it make you feel good, what?
00:47You do realize that this is your only chance.
00:50Screw you, dude.
00:51Screw me, really?
00:52You're not a social worker.
00:53There's a good kid there.
00:56Is there a problem?
00:57You have brought him back here.
00:59What exactly do you know about this kid?
01:01Hey.
01:04I know he was living out of his car for two years.
01:07Going hungry.
01:09You gotta be careful.
01:10This is not the same as being their teacher.
01:13Stay out of the chair.
01:14Take a deep breath.
01:15You're saying your first priority is to this school?
01:17Isn't my first priority to my students?
01:20What?
01:21All of them?
01:22All of them?
01:25Failure to graduate guarantees you serve the sentence in full.
01:29You gonna try and fix me?
01:30You know how many people have tried?
01:31Maybe we're getting somewhere.
01:32Come on, what else you got?
01:33Come on!
01:34A liar, a loser.
01:35I've heard it all before.
01:37You know, whether it's something your dad did to you or your mom didn't do,
01:39you have got to deal with it.
01:41You weren't there.
01:42Stop!
01:43Why do you care if I don't care?
01:46I care that you don't go to prison.
01:50Some kids are born behind the eight ball.
01:53I can't do this.
01:54And I'm cursed.
01:55We're lying to them when we say everything's gonna work out just fine.
02:04But don't those kids deserve the same chance as the others?