Lesson Plan | movie | 2010 | Official Trailer
"Lesson Plan" is a documentary film about The Third Wave (aka The Wave & Die Welle) classroom experiment, as told by the | dG1fbEZGUUJnTDlhdDQ
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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:04 Up until that point, I was raised
00:08 to believe everything that the government said as the truth.
00:12 Our country was having economic problems,
00:14 that we could do better economically,
00:17 that we could do better politically, militarily,
00:22 that there was a lot of weakness going on
00:24 with our current administration.
00:26 We were in a war that nobody wanted to be in,
00:29 that we were going to find a better way,
00:31 that we were going to get rid of those people in Washington who
00:33 were not following what the mass of people wanted to follow.
00:37 For years, I tried to hide from it, avoid it, not discuss it.
00:41 It's a responsibility to really try to understand what is good
00:45 and what is evil.
00:46 There was this teacher that taught
00:47 neo-fascism in this school.
00:49 Students were so easily coerced into doing something
00:52 that obviously wasn't right and just took over their lives.
00:56 It's the perversion of the incredible power
00:59 of the human mind that can do almost anything.
01:02 All the magical things the human mind does in terms
01:04 of creativity can get perverted to justify
01:07 any evil, any transgression.
01:09 The first few days, the third wave was a game.
01:11 We had lots of rules.
01:13 We had lots of things we had to do.
01:15 There is a certain strength that comes from discipline.
01:18 The question is, to what end?
01:20 She shared with me that she had been born and raised
01:22 in Nazi Germany and that this was
01:24 the climate of her upbringing.
01:26 And she said, this is so like that.
01:29 And you can't take this sitting down.
01:31 You have to do something.
01:32 I refused to give him my name.
01:34 The other guy started to move over
01:36 like it was actually going to be confrontational.
01:38 I was getting ready to go to battle.
01:40 It looked like maybe it was going to be a fistfight
01:42 right here in the hallway.
01:43 He took his advantage as a teacher
01:46 with a guaranteed audience of young people
01:48 to try to indoctrinate him.
01:50 He wasn't teaching them.
01:51 He was indoctrinating them.
01:52 And all of a sudden, the class would start chanting in unison,
01:55 guilty, guilty, guilty.
01:57 There was a line crossed all over the place.
01:59 What they did, they were not proud of.
02:01 I think that's what hurt a lot of the people.
02:03 I thought we were trapped.
02:05 I went into a panic.
02:06 I stood up and I said, I'm getting the hell out of here.
02:09 And this wasn't about teaching students
02:13 or running a simulation.
02:14 This was like-- this was out of bounds.
02:19 For some people, the world is filled only
02:21 with prisoners and guards, power and powerlessness.
02:25 You have a choice.
02:26 You want to be powerless or you want to be powerful?
02:28 Everybody wants to be more powerful than powerless.
02:31 And the question is, what are you willing to pay?
02:33 What are you willing to do to go from being
02:35 powerless to being powerful?
02:37 For most people, it's an awful lot.
02:40 [MUSIC PLAYING]
02:44 [MUSIC ENDS]
02:47 [BLANK_AUDIO]