FALSIFIED EXPECTATIONS

Autumn 1998. Thousands of high school students went out into the streets in cities all over Greece, demanding changes in the new educational system proposed by the state and in the quality of their everyday life which is constantly threatened by increasigly intensified school programmes. Programmes proposed by a society which aims to create useful employees, and by an educational system which appears to demand creativity and innovation, while at the same time rejecting the only innovative elements that adolescence can produce. A fast-paced and complex educational system that aims to create individuals ready to earn a lot of money, arming them with just enough knowledge to satisfy their material needs. Nowadays, when anything not deemed useful is rejected, a laid-back approach to life appears practically incredible, and certainly reprehensible. Intercutting scenes from the recent high school student demonstrations with texts by writers such as Camus, Nietzsche, and Beckett, filmmaker Rikaki produces a documentary filled with "words and images on the things that are not the way they should be"...