'Dangerous Minds' filmanalyse

When a retired U.S. Marine, LouAnne Johnson, arrives at Parkmont High School with poor, angry minorities from East Palo Alto, California, the class she is tottering has students involved in gangs and drugs and it is the schools “trouble class” and it has not till now had a teacher that could handle all this. Determined to have them trust and respect her, she quickly changes her presentation, wearing leather jackets, teaching karate to her students and cursing in the classroom. She realizes that she has to chance the rules a bit to be able to teach the class, she starts having them read poetry, using Bob Dylan lyrics to teach symbolism. LouAnne rewards her students for their hard work by giving them candy bars for their good job, toy prizes and trip to a amusement park. Along with helping her students with schoolwork, she also provides emotional support to several students, each of the students deal with their own serious problems and adapts to each of them, boys who are too caught up in street politics for their own good, and a teen who's dealing with the reality of being pregnant in high school. Although she intends to leave at the end of the year, the students quote the lyrics of a Dylan Thomas poem that they learned and insist that she's their "light" and refuse to let her leave. Touched by all of the students, she agrees to stay.