Jonathan Malvar
Bar Boys Reaction Paper
As shown in the movie “BAR BOYS ”, what is the significance of learning and training of
law school that needed to be improved in the Criminal Justice System?
“Bar Boys “is a movie written and directed by young filmmaker Kip Oebanda, tells the
story of four friends Josh, Erik, Chris, and Toran, who all wanted to go to law school and
how they try to keep their bond and amid the trials and sacrifices they need to endure. The
story evolves and tackles the life of a law students and their journey towards taking the bar
exam.
It clearly showed in the movie how intensive the training it was in law school. With
this heavy course load and thousands of pages of reading for each class it is quite hard to
survive law school. Part of the reason why the first year is so difficult is that you are still
adjusting to a new style of teaching, learning and evaluation. Many law school professor
utilize the Socratic Method of teaching, in which they call on whomever they want,
whenever they want to answer questions about the assigned reading, as well as to apply the
legal principles and reasoning to hypothetical situations.
In addition to this new classroom environment, law school offers a new and
unfamiliar grading system for most students. Law school classes are typically graded on a
forced curve, meaning there are set of number of A’s, A-minuses, b-pluses, B’s and so on
in each class with the majority of the grades in the B-plus/b range depending on the
professor. This was clearly emphasized in the movie.
The above mentioned instances are only few scenarios which clearly depicts how
hard it is to survive law school and become a lawyer. It is not easy as a, b, c as what others
may think about it. The logic is, lawyers are expected to become the defender of the people
or clients who suffers injustice, abuse, or any circumstance that may aggravate one’s right,
limb and life. So it is a must to take the course diligently and study LAW by heart.
