A real documentary on Education : The forbidden education (La educación prohibida)

One of the few readers of this blog, Jurgen from Chile who is also a friend now suggested me to have a look at the documentary – La educación prohibida (The forbidden education). I finally saw and was pleasantly surprised and deeply moved. It is such a masterpiece, a lovely balanced view, a humbly presented realistic take on education. I loved it!

I’ve been planning to make a documentary on education (been working on script, bought a DSLR to shoot, talked to friends, mentors, teachers about it) from last 3 years. In last 3 years, I have been watching all available documentaries/movies on education so as to see whether we need one more documentary on education or is it adding to the digital garbage explosion?
I saw many documentaries but was never satisfied because most of them just focused on “issues” with education. Others were too biased. Some were relevant to only small part of the world. There was not one documentary that could make me say “Ah! That’s one documentary I couldn’t miss!”.
Until I saw “The forbidden education”! Why I like it so much? First because it talks about the problem very clearly and vividly, secondly it proposes solutions, thirdly the solutions proposed are very much applicable globally and are holistic and lastly it maintains a very humble tone not claiming to have found “save the world cure”. Ofcourse, add to it its lovely animations, good interviews, great one liners and flawless direction and technicals.
Thank god for this movie. I don’t have to make one now. Anyone for buying my DSLR?
Special thanks to Jurgen !