《蒙娜丽莎的微笑》英语影评

a film review on Mona Lisa Smile

Based on the background in 1953-1954 in Wellesley college, the movie seems to a charming picture with a famous women's-only college, smart girls and a delicate school campus, everything has kept well, even though it just looks like how it performs, until a "wonder teacher" graduate from UC Berkeley, Katherine Ann Wasten, come to the school, which is famous for tradition.

Certainly, when it comes to this film we can not deny that women's position in the past can always be a hot topic. However, taking current situation about fairness beween males and females into consideration, I still think this theme must be an excellent one as the film not only discuss things in the past but also make audiences resonate, especially females. The plots just always suit everybody to reveal their distinctive characters, in which Katherine is the most out-standing. It seemed that she used her art lessons as a vehicle to put across her opinion to young women that women were not born to become housewives and mothers. Katherine wanted to make a difference and do more things in life rather than solely adopt the roles of wives and mothers. I can never forget, in one scene of the movie, she showed her students four newspaper ads, and asked what future scholars would think of the idea that women were born to be housewives and mothers.

The first time I have seen this movie, I have to sign about how satisfactory the movie present to us! Beautiful frame, perfect plot and distinctive characters convey us a real dream just like Mona Lisa Smile.