Different from the other cliches where the teacher changes the bad guys in a moral sense, rather reaches them through there own levl of life. ( Cesar states from recollection " it's all I got" ) A rare show of emotion after the depressed and spiritually dead teacher plays roulete. Another aspect of the escape from the cliches is his vigulante style, ( the substitute not realistic). Garfield cuts of cesar's finger, showing more emotion of a teacher gone too far, not a pretty atmosphere of simply leaving the education system altogether. Garfield was driven too far, like Michael Douglas in ' Falling Down ', the last scene of the two dead bodys, teacher and gang banger, was known to be coming yet still haunting. This was the real last scene, not the graduation where everybody cries, very original. And maybe the reason it got such poor ratings was the haunting, confused state the viewer was left in. No happy endings, teacher dead, "no matter how many of you I take down" he just could not stop it. (quotes are from recollection please do not use them as quotes in further material for or against my opinion)

The best movie ever. You guys just don`t get it