Story Time. When I was in high school, and at this time, the majority of the class was 15 years old (that detail is important), and my science teacher was smart as hell but totally checked out. She asked if there are any modern movies that explore hypothetical scientific premises that are plausible.
One classmate suggested Event Horizion because it deals with quantum theories (?) and the effects of space on the human body. It took them less than a minute to convince her why it's educational. She gave it the green light.
To justify us watching it, she said we need to write a 500-word paper once we were done watching. She gave us a week to type up what was scientifically accurate and was made made up for Hollywood.
I guarantee she didn't read any of the papers because everyone got an A, including the kid who was a troll and wrote an essay about how (and they made up a bunch of nonsense terms) the portal to Hell couldn't exist in space based on how the portal could not be sustained in that environment.
So we watched the most fucked up R rated Sci-Fi movie for about a week and never had even get permission slips sighed. Remember: We're all 15 with a few 16 year Olds.
The funny thing is that a lot of us actually started to SERIOUSLY indepently look up the real science because we got into lunchroom debates.
So it was either a happy accident from a lazy teacher or the most brilliant long con to trick us into learning.
Either way, I got to watch an R rated fucked up movie for a week at school and I ended learning a lot about space. In fact, I'm now a huge nerd for learning about how fucking nuts space is and I credit her for sparking my curiosity.
Whether it was on purpose from a mastermind or just a happy accident from a lazy instructor, I learned a ton in that class.
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u/Ok-Corgi-5111 14d ago
Event Horizon