On the final day of the school year, a group of rising seniors in small-town Texas set out with custom-made paddles to whack the bottoms of soon-to-be freshmen, and then take a couple of them to a "beer bust" out by a soaring light tower.
"Wiseman's early works set a template for documentary filmmaking by avoiding conventional narrative structures, instead focusing on raw observation of real life, which proved deeply influential in reforming institutions."