I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.
Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.
Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique.