Children Full Of Life Documentary Summary

'Children full of life' is a documentary that focuses on implementing important life lessons into the school curicullum. It follows Mr. Kanamori, the teacher of a grade 4 classroom of 35 children, and his journey to try and teach these children empathy and compassion towards one another. I highly recommend this documentary to everyone and anyone, because it shows an important side of academics that many other countries of the world choose to ignore. EI (emotional intelligence), the ability to connect to others and put themselves in other people's shoes, is highly ignored in today's school curicullum; but in this documentary, we see it in full effect. The raw emotions that the children experience, the bonding through these emotions, and the kindness we see
If we heard from the children on a more interpersonal level, the dynamic of the documentary would take a more personal turn, and the audience would feel a sense of closeness and involvement with all of the children. A quote that I feel illustrates the core of this documentary is as follows: “When people really listen, they live in your hearts forever.” 'Children full of life' is the title of this documentary, because it focuses on important life lessons that children will take with them moving forward. This quote illustrates the closeness that the class develops with one another throughout the documentary, and the most important lesson that Mr. Kanamori wants to teach his class; which is the ability to listen and connect to each other's hearts. To end this review, I will compare this documentary to another one in this unit, 'Plastic in the oceans', and state one similarity and one difference between the two. At the core of both documentaries, it speaks about how to live a better and fulfilling life. This similarity that they share is expressed in two different ways. In 'Children full of life', it relates a fulfilling life to learning empathy and compassion at a young age,