Mona Lisa's Smile is a 2003 feature film produced by Revolution Film Studios. The film was directed by Mike Neville and co-starred. The film was first released in the United States on December 19, 2003.
Mona Lisa's smile
The film is set in the United States of the 1950s, when the american ethos was to return to the family, people were conservative in their thinking, and girls regarded marrying and becoming a qualified housewife as a role they were born to play. Against this backdrop, a teacher full of ideals and enthusiasm came to Wesley, a conservative feudal girls' school, to challenge the antiquated education system.
mona lisa smile
This film set in women and education gave me a lot of feelings. The story takes place in the United States in 1953, the prestigious Wesley Women's University campus,
Who knocked on the door of the temple of knowledge
"Who knocked on the door of the Temple of Knowledge?"
"Me, an ordinary woman."
"What are you looking for?"
"Gaining soul through hard study, dedicating my life to knowledge."
"Well, welcome. All women with the same ambitions as you will be welcomed. ”
Then there are the female students who enter the auditorium with the sun, and the scene is really beautiful:
Is it the temple in your mind?
Teacher Watson, who wants to change the values of knowledge seekers, especially women's life values, is pleased to see this scene, and the object of the upcoming professor is the best female student in the country, she is positive and enthusiastic:
In this best girls' school, in fact, it is also the most conservative, the third and fourth year students are married or ready to get married, and the principal and the school council will make """ as their goal of training students.
The school also has a special etiquette class, there are scene settings such as "", but also in order to participate in the wedding specially train students' words and deeds, etc., seeing this Watson is very confused and shocked, women should be born for the family and busy for a lifetime? Should we accept the so-called ""? She went to challenge, to help students go to higher schools, to try to use new teaching methods to break the conservative inherent thinking, but the pressure of public opinion and the constraints of traditional teaching made her lose, in the last class, she used her last strength to express her criticism of the original female positioning. She is a person who has a strong sense of self-awareness of women, even to the point of being a little extreme.
In today's society, where feminist movements are becoming more prevalent, the overextension and interpretation of women's status and their original meaning are beginning to diverge.
The equality we seek is not that women are necessarily wrong to choose the family, but more importantly, women have more rights to choose like men, and the family should be an option rather than a decision.
Some people just like the family, that is, willing to dedicate their lives to their husbands and children, which is also her freedom, and there is no difference in essence from the pursuit of higher self-worth.
So when she saw that the students she had hoped to study at higher schools chose to get married, Watson first felt sorry and disappointed, but the students' words made her begin to respect this choice.
- No one made you sacrifice your family. I just want you to understand that you can do both.
- I know what I'm doing, and it doesn't make me stupid. To you, to be a housewife is to sell your soul, they are superficial, stupid, and uninteresting. It was you who said I could do what I wanted to do. That's what I want to do.
She's smiling, is she happy?
Therefore, everyone, regardless of gender, the right to choose and the goals should be given and respected, which is the fairness that society seeks.
She rides on a bike to a more avant-garde and freer Europe, and the students chase after them on bicycles, which also symbolizes that they will follow in her footsteps, because they have a goal, so they will be braver to make their own choices, rather than what this social culture wants them to be, ""
Unfettered
This is the influence that a successful educator should have, not to improve the number of points students can score, but to teach them to find self-worth and set an example for them. She is the "Mona Lisa" in their hearts.
Not all rovers are aimless
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