Saturday, February 19, 2011

Movie Review - Mona Lisa Smile




I was amazed by how powerful a teacher could influence the students in making choices for their future after watching this amazing movie. The tradition that already rooted in the students from a conservative Wellesly College that deny the new way to appreciate life brought by a wonderful teacher makes the story interesting. One thing that struck to my mind while watching this movie was the way of most women think are quite alike even today's women tend to think that they born to fill the responsibilities to their husbands, families and children, but how about the responsibilities towards themselves?
                      Most of the Wellesly's students would end up married though they were brilliant students who posses the required criteria to fulfill their ambitions. As a teacher we must be alert of certain culture or trend that being practiced by our students that might offer more harm than good to them. Like what Miss Katherine Ann Watson did in the movie, she tried to change her students point of view about life because she wanted her students to realize that they deserved to have an equal right to be what they want and not bounded to society's expectation. 





 Students sometimes too scared to break the tradition as they might not be accepted by the society and for that particular reason they have to bear the suffers  just to satisfy the society. Just be what we want to be because we know ourselves better then others.

Monalisa and her famous smile..but do we know what she is hiding behind her beautiful smile?

1 comment:

  1. Want to know the secret behind Mona Lisa’s smile?
    She’s trying to hide her cavity! LOL
    *ehem*
    Back to my topic.
    It’s true that sometimes, there are people who are still too afraid to chase after their dreams. They’re too clingy with tradition and don’t want to go against it. And when there are people brave enough to step forward and try to be different, the society would discriminate them and treat them like mavericks.
    If we know that we’re capable of doing it, why bother to let tradition holds us from chasing after our dreams, right? =D

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