Filmmakers and many reviewers do not want to tell you what this movie is about. Too bad; honesty might have led to greater success.
Set in an upper-class English all-girl boarding school in 1934, this is
about the deadly and tragic impact a lesbian teacher has on the children put in her charge. How her advances on her victim are rejected and how she deceives the other girls to turn vengeance on her victim.
This teacher has stayed-behind-to-teach because the teaching occupation provides a field of opportunity to seduce students. Quite like Penn State, revealed just recently.
CRACKS is 180 degrees in contrast to "The History Boys" -- a film and play in which Homosexual groping of students (as in Penn State) is portrayed as jolly fun for the teachers, and a gay teacher who does not molest his students is mocked, as are the school officials who seek to end the child abuse.
In CRACKS, the teacher who abuses her students is unquestionably presented as evil, and nothing in the storyline excuses her actions; nor should it.
Jordan Scott has done a fine job with good acting and character development. The cinematography is superb.
Set in an upper-class English all-girl boarding school in 1934, this is
about the deadly and tragic impact a lesbian teacher has on the children put in her charge. How her advances on her victim are rejected and how she deceives the other girls to turn vengeance on her victim.
This teacher has stayed-behind-to-teach because the teaching occupation provides a field of opportunity to seduce students. Quite like Penn State, revealed just recently.
CRACKS is 180 degrees in contrast to "The History Boys" -- a film and play in which Homosexual groping of students (as in Penn State) is portrayed as jolly fun for the teachers, and a gay teacher who does not molest his students is mocked, as are the school officials who seek to end the child abuse.
In CRACKS, the teacher who abuses her students is unquestionably presented as evil, and nothing in the storyline excuses her actions; nor should it.
Jordan Scott has done a fine job with good acting and character development. The cinematography is superb.