It's been awhile since I've seen this and I probably never will see it again because, even though I did watch this movie
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sun78 — 15 years ago(August 30, 2010 12:42 PM)
Yeah he was. I think it was very unprofessional. But someone on this board suggested that maybe the teacher didn't even know about Kale's father's death. That could be true. Or maybe the teacher did know and was just being a jerk.
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mercury4 — 15 years ago(September 09, 2010 04:03 AM)
The teacher was baiting him. He even whispered about his father so only he would hear. I don't blame the kid at all for punching him out. The Spanish teacher did deserve it. It also doesn't look like the teacher put up much of a fight. He wanted to say that to the kid. That's what he gets. You mess with the bull you get the horns.
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Brandestoc — 14 years ago(July 19, 2011 07:53 AM)
My friends teacher did something similar. Her older brother had recently passed away & her teacher asked the class, soon after his death, how many of them had an older brother or sister. My friend raised her hand & the teacher told her to put her hand down, as she was an only child now.
I agree that was cruel. Hope that teacher got reported.
Yeah and then the kid gets arrested and goes to jail, hence he got what he deserved too.
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mirmacidal — 15 years ago(September 26, 2010 05:41 PM)
My friends teacher did something similar. Her older brother had recently passed away & her teacher asked the class, soon after his death, how many of them had an older brother or sister. My friend raised her hand & the teacher told her to put her hand down, as she was an only child now.
She was only in 2nd grade. Had she been older, she would have knocked the teacher out as well. Never understood why her parents didn't pull her out of that school. -
novastar_6 — 15 years ago(September 26, 2010 09:32 PM)
Indeeeeeeed, like why didn't he punch his mom when she expected him to do housework? After all, how dare she? HE was the one being punished, he had been arrested, he was still in mourning a whole damn year later, it's so cruel he's expected to do the laundry when his dad died, right? Should've knocked her out for being such a cold hearted bitch and not just letting him play video games all day to cope with his dad's death.
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koffeenkreame41-1 — 15 years ago(October 18, 2010 11:06 AM)
His teacher was a prick, I would've clocked him too. Yeah, Kale wasn't prepared, most teachers talk to them after class or something like that. He even told Kale "I don't know who you think you are messing with" The teacher was being inapproriate, much like the officer who was related to him. He enjoyed cuffing Kale just because Kale hit the teacher. I guess he got what he deserved too. I'm seeing a strange pattern here, Ronnie didn't listen when Kale told him to come upstairs, he got beened with a baseball bat, his mom got her face rammed into the wall and was tied up in the basement.
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I love hutch — 3 years ago(June 12, 2022 05:04 AM)
I actually do kind of think that the mother was kind of a cold bitch when she acted that way. I know she was not a bad person and they obviously loved each other. It's the way she said it that rubbed me the wrong way. I don't know if this was the movie being manipulative or not.
I like this movie a lot. But for whatever reason, I don't like the way most of the people treat him. The only other character I really like besides Kale is his Korean friend. And, ironically (?), I kind of like the serial killer, but that is only because I really like David Morse.
And even though "Rear Window" was clearly directed by a master filmmaker, I prefer "Disturbia" if only because I really like Shia Le Bouf and I thoroughly dislike Jimmy Stewart.
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novastar_6 — 15 years ago(February 01, 2011 10:27 AM)
And what, Kale doesn't have an attitude?
And please don't give me that whole 'he's feeling guilty about his father's death' line, millions of people have dead parents and they don't go around punching out people's lights who expect them to do their job. -
Zaphenzo — 15 years ago(February 07, 2011 02:17 PM)
It's not like the teacher was like "You should've done your homework," and then Kale punched him out. That would've been completely different. When you talk to a student like he did and basically antagonize him about his father that died in an accident when he was driving, that's definitely just plain wrong, and he deserved to get decked.
And your other post about his mother is also a ridiculous analogy that makes no sense. Your mom saying "Do the laundry and take the trash out" and your teacher saying "What would your (dead) father think about this" are two things that are so ridiculously unrelated that they are nowhere near being comparable situations. -
Zaphenzo — 15 years ago(February 07, 2011 09:37 PM)
It doesn't matter what is and isn't a crime. That's not what we're talking about here. We're saying that the teacher was out of line for saying what he said to Kale, and we think he got what he deserved when Kale punched him. I don't see anything about laws there.
And do you also think that Kale shouldn't have killed the dude with the hedge-clippers? Personally, the dude killed a bunch of people, I think he deserved it. But what Kale did was illegal. Killing, even in self defense, is considered by law to be unnecessary force. -
Mudvayne6182 — 14 years ago(June 16, 2011 01:33 PM)
Killing, even in self defense, is considered by law to be unnecessary force.
No, it's not. If your life is in immediate danger due to another person, you have every right (legally and ethically) to defend yourself. Even if that means ending the other persons life. The tricky part is "immediate danger" meaning, they better be trying to murder you. -
novastar_6 — 14 years ago(June 18, 2011 10:27 AM)
Exactly, whereas there is no threat of any kind for a teacher to get on your case because you're not doing the work and 'what would your father think?' is in no way grounds for criminal assault and battery, did he think the judge would say 'oh he insulted you so it's okay to pound his face in'?