Director: Lone Scherfig
Writer: Lynn Barber, Nick Hornby
Cast: Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard
Genre: Drama
Duration: 100 Menit
Country: UK
Production
Company: BBC
Films
"Studying is hard and boring. Teaching is hard and boring. So, what you're telling me is to be bored, and then bored, and finally bored again, but this time for the rest of my life? This whole stupid country is bored! There's no life in it, or color, or fun! It's probably just as well the Russians are going to drop a nuclear bomb on us any day now. So my choice is to do something hard and boring, or to marry my... Jew, and go to Paris and Rome and listen to jazz, and read, and eat good food in nice restaurants, and have fun! It's not enough to educate us anymore Ms. Walters. You've got to tell us why you're doing it."
An interesting argument comes from Jenny Mellor, a teenage student in England 1960s. Although the time has pass and it is 50 years later now, but the concept of education is still questionable. Do we need education or degree? What is the important of education for us? Can we survive in this life only with education, but without a degree? Well, those and lots of other questions.
The movie is about Jenny Mellor. A bright beautiful teenage girl that has all the future ahead of her. She's one of the smartest students in her class, she wants to go to Oxford, studying English Literature, and then becoming a teacher. All planned, all agreed.
The she met David Goldman. A charming gentleman that has the ability to make everyone loves him and fall at his feet. He introduces Jenny to a spectacular life that Jenny has ever wanted. Watching a jazz concert, living in a fancy apartment full of books and artworks, romantic weekend to Paris, and many more. Feels like having everything she wants when she was with David, she start questioning the importance of an education. She needs education to get a job so that she can have everything that she wants. Now, if she has already had everything, why she still needs an education?
She asked this question to her teacher and principal, but they have no satisfying answer.
I think the way this movie questioning the importance of an education is so brilliant. It has been built slowly and carefully from the very beginning until asked literally in the middle of the movie. I love it.
The ending? Well, for me it is a little bit too preachy. I don't fancy it, but I think it is the best way to deliver the right answer of the question.
It is a great movie. And I can finally see what is so appealing about Carey Mulligan that I fail to see before.
Rate: 7.5/10
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