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"MR .HOLLAND'S OPUS"
The movie started off with Richard Dreyfuss’ first day of teaching in John F. Kennedy High School as a music teacher on Music Appreciation subject. Time and again the movie emphasized on the fact that it is Mr. Glen Holland’s (Richard Dreyfuss’ character) dream to be able to finish his composition. As life went on, Mr. Holland transitioned from being a so-so teacher into a teacher who went beyond the mediocre and lived for the purpose of teaching, even as he saw for himself the benefits of his efforts in his students’ lives. This was so with the help of his co-teacher friend who coaches the school’s football team. He told his personal story of how his very own teacher changed his life.
We saw that even as Mr. Holland touched
his students’ lives with the way he teaches, he himself also is brought
into maturity in the very events in his personal life. We evidently see
the conflict within his family how he diverted his attention into
teaching his class in school while his actions totally suggest a denial
of his son’s hearing impairment. Which is a major despair for him, even
as he is so much into music and the desperation was even more reflected
with his realization that the great Beethoven lost his sense of hearing
in his adulthood, while his son was born deaf.
It is interesting to note how Mr.
Holland changed the lives of people around him, not just his students,
but even of the teachers and the school’s principal, whom he only rubbed
cold elbows with in the beginning. With the duration of time and as
people saw for themselves, this teacher’s dedication to his craft and
his character of a man, peoples’ lives were changed, and showed their
appreciation for his life towards the end of the movie when they all
showed him, that his life’s ultimate composition/opus is the people’s
lives which he has touched and changed.
But before that happened, it turned out
that as human as he is, the casualty of Mr. Holland’s dedication to his
work was his family as he took them for granted, especially his son, who
surprisingly was brought up by his mom to still be confident despite
the conspicuous rejection from his father, who obviously didn’t bother
learning the ropes of signing for his son’s sake. It was only when his
son was towards his adulthood that he saw how he missed all those years
of growing up and knowing him. From then on, he came to terms with his
disability and accepted him for what he is.
There came a realization of a hole in
Mr. Holland’s heart when towards the prime of his life he has realized
he has not fulfilled his dream of finishing his music. During this time a
temptation struck him. Rowena, a young lady with a golden voice who
looked up to him with awe and attraction, came into the picture offering
him affirmation of what he is as a truly gifted musician, which his
wife has failed to provide him because of her very own pre-occupation
with attending to their son’s special needs. Mr. Holland stood in that
crossroad of his life and he passed it with flying colors when despite
the many frustrations he must have had with his family, he still chose
his family over the hopeful future he might have with Rowena who he
knows can embrace his love for music and he knows he can finally finish
his life long dream to finish his opus, which he entitled after her
name.
This crossroad wherein Mr. Holland
selflessly chose to do what’s right and not what’s convenient for him.
Choosing his family over his personal interest. It was a test of
character for his part and as he chose to stick to his commitment to his
family and what’s right rather than choose selfishly what he could have
rationalized as rightfully his (his finally finishing his composition).
Towards the climax of the movie, he saw right before his eyes, in total
amazement, the rewards of all his selflessness and dedication to the
very purpose of his being. All of the generations of students whose
lives he has changed were all there playing the very opus he has put his
heart and soul into and has thought all along that day he will never
get to see.
This is a very encouraging and inspiring
movie that we could always go back to and know in our hearts that there
is always something that we can do that can make a difference and even
as we do it one day at a time, it piles up without our knowing it and
the difference that we make contribute a great deal to a hopeful future
to people that we influence and love.
If you want to know more about this just see the movie . And I can assure to all of you that this is a very beautiful true story . SO WATCH IT NOW!!
