Film

The English Lesson

Not only will computers rob us of our dignity, but also our very core.

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0h 20m

2016

“Not only will computers rob us of our dignity, but also our very core.”

Synopsis

Set ten years in the future, Virgil, an English Language Steward (not teacher) works in a school which achieves 100 hundred per cent success rate. Dressed in a red hooded outfit which suggests his low rank, Virgil has been employed to assist the efficient auto-prof: a computerised English instructor. The machine unleashes utilitarian English classes pitched way below its students' levels in order to guarantee passes and maintain the school's reputation. Virgil becomes taken by a student, Marie, who somehow manages to stir him from the drudgery of his apathetic classroom role. He fails one of the student's test in his class and is ordered by his superiors to amend the score if he wishes to keep his position, taking into account the dwindling jobs market. He is bullied, harassed and intimated into complying with a system that is decayed, corrupted and abusive towards its employees.

Director

Paul Herbert

Trailer

Comedy

Cast & Crew

Tim Hayward

as Virgil

Laila Rose Bouromane

as Marie

John Gannon

as Bob Mangle

Tommie Grabiec

as Butch

Gabriel Gambetta

as Mateo

Adi Loya

as Angela

Claudie Nedelec

as Ms. Clark

Anna Cornish

as Alice

Rhys Whiteside

as Frank

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