Akeelah and the bee

In my opinion, eventhough this movie is actually classified as an ‘educational movie’, I found it very interesting and I really enjoyed watching it. Well, movies were made as tools to entertain people. I thought this movie would be a boring movie as it involves with black community and I thought it would be streets gangster or whatsoever, apparently I was wrong. This movie has its entertainment value and it actually very fun to watch because it’s about something I am not familiar with; spelling bee. How many people can actually spell words just like chewing gum? Akeelah did it and it bedazzled me with words I never heard of!

Of course, the movie taught me how to be more independent and to be hardworking in our life. Akeelah, who is a girl lives with her mother and she lost her father, decided to enter a competition which is people assume she’s not gonna make it. However, with help from her teacher, Mr. Larabee and the support from her family, she has opened people’s eyes to show that she actually can do it as other people, too. I wouldn’t know how she can actually memorise all the bombastic words and prove the society that with ghetto life, she can be a champion. So, basically, this movie acts as one of my inspiration for me to learn more, and of course, to be a better teacher in the future.

I never entered any spelling bee competition before, so I have no experience in the competition. However, this movie reminds me of my secondary teacher named Pn. Nursehah. She always tell me to be a good person and she helped me a lot with my English. I mean, she taught me how to speak well, the pronunciation and the spelling as well. I know her very well and we have become like mother and son. I thanked her for making me a good person and gave me so much confidence in my life. I remembered all the sweet memories I had with her and I wish she had a great life nowadays.

We have to be hardworking to achieve what we want in our life. Akeelah wants to win the national spelling bee competition and she did it. So, basically what I wanna say here, we have to be positive and be realistic to get what we want. We can’t simply hope that everything will be like we planned. It’s not gonna happen. So, despite of having problems in our life, I told myself to be more positive and do what you wanna do. Greatest luck comes with greatest hardship. This is my axiom of life and it is shown in this movie. When you work hard and be sincere in every effort you did, anything that you venture, you will succeed because you deserve it. We are who we are, and we are the one who decide our future.