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Cheaters (2000)
This films misses the "true story" mark
I was born and raised from a working class family in Chicago. I am also a Whitney Young alumni. Take one look at the school's website and you will learn that whites are the minority and that most people are from low SES or middle class backgrounds. This film's depiction of the Whitney Young was waaaaay off. Cheerleaders at the pep rally, matching outfits, and laptops for every student...LMAO! After viewing this film, I now understand what it's like to be on the other side of those "based on a true story" movies.
In this movie there had to be an enemy. So, Whitney Young played the role. However, the real evil is the school system. But no one wants to talk about that. What this film displayed was the selfish and lazy attitudes of the cheaters, and their need to justify their behavior by blaming the kids who worked hard and won. (If people only knew the amount of time they put into studying for AD) What we should be paying attention to is how easy the children took almost no responsibility for what they did. Instead, transferring the blame to the opposing school. Rather, the film should have told the story of how a teacher took advantage of weak-willed teenagers to boost his ego, counter his life of inadequacy. He could have been a voice for the oppressed but chose to take the easy road and let the kids down.