
FREEDOM WRITER vs ECRIRE POUR EXISTER
Before I learn about freedom writer and Erin Gruwell, I saw Hilary Swank and her ponytail together with the French title ‘Ecrire Pour Exister’ (Write for Existence) ubiquitously in Paris. What’s a true statement, my million dollars baby?
Without knowing what’s the story about, like last time watching ‘Million Dollars Baby’, simply appealed by its title “Write for existence’, of course partly because of Hilary Swank, I decided to go cinema by myself after work.
Surprisingly Erin Gruwell shares ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ (a special book for me that I bought in Amsterdam at Anne Frank Museum) and encourages her students to keep themselves a journal, picking up a pen instead of a gun, recording and sharing their experience, emotion, challenges and triumphs in life.
Didn’t I just share with Zoooker recently my thought of writing? As a freelance writer, I know my ‘shape’ that I am never the best and talented writer. However, by sharing and recording my experience in words, I find stories and experiences among friends resonate with each other and it is one of the greatest things in our existence as human being, isn’t it?
Of course, life is never a bed of roses. Erin’s husband leaves her while she wins the hearts of the youngsters. The price of freedom is never free. Prepared or not, a freedom writer continues writing and tells stories of her or his existence. The experiences and memories, good or bad, pass on and last….

