Nowadays, college students study in university and fight for their dreams. However, there is a condition that many of them do not know what they want to achieve. What they always do is to follow others’ steps and do what others did. For instance, many of the college students in India try to learn engineering in universities because engineer is a popular occupation with its decent salary. Even though many of them do not like that field of study, they are forced to learn by their parents. There is an Indian movie called Three Idiots criticizing the phenomenon aforementioned. The director of Three Idiots portrayed three so called fool students who follow their own dreams and achieve their goals after working hard. The main character, Rancho likes engineering but he does not like professor’s educational methods, which is only based on memorization. The other two characters Farhan and Raju are not interested in engineering, but they follow their parents’ perspectives to learn engineering initially, but then change their mind by Rancho and do what they actually want. I believe that this movie is a good movie for those college students who are forced to learn what they do not like. It not only shows the negative aspects of the stereotype ways of education, especially memorization, but also tells them the importance of being themselves rather than simply doing what others did.
This movie can be considered as an examination of education system. It can be reflected by what the main character always do, which is criticizing the current education in India. There is a plot, which happens in an engineering class. The professor wants students to answer the question of “What is a machine”. Rancho tries to explain his understanding of machine, an...
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...hey actually want. This movie succeeds to criticize the oppressive educational system, which is educationalist know nothing about anything outside the books. Most importantly, this movie shows that students’ dreams should not be confined to getting decent-paid jobs. Instead, they should follow their own ambitions. By using the descriptions of the three so called idiots’ achievements, the director succeeds to show a theme that being yourself is more crucial than following others’ steps blindly. For the reasons above, Three Idiots can be considered as a good movie for college students.
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Moore, Michael. “Idiot Nation.” Rereading America: Cultural Contexts for Critical Thinking and Writing. Ed. Gary Colombo, Robert Cullen, Bonnie Lisle. 8th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2010. 128-145.
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Kleinfeld, Judith. "McCandless: Hero or Dumb Jerk." McCandless: Hero or Dumb Jerk. N.p., 20 July 2001. Web. 14 Mar. 2014.
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