The director's shallowness makes the standard of this film stay at the level of a mid-level American drama. She deliberately stretched the breadth of human nature in the 1971 edition to a narrow level, just simply explaining the relationship between the characters from the perspectives of sex and faith. Everyone lacks the breadth of humanity, and can't see the use and struggle, so the historical background is no longer important. It is purely a curious love to catch a horse to watch it. At this level, she also simplifies the handling of the emotions of the two sexes: women of different ages in the film show different demands in the face of this man, such as the dean played by Nicole Kidman, Obviously like the male protagonist, but in this "gender relationship", she represents restraint and control. The teacher and the male lead played by Dunst are the needs of marriage, while the female student played by Fanning is pure sexual impulse. It was discovered that Jane, a girl who is the lead, has a father-daughter relationship with the lead.
As a female director, the relationship between women in this film is both foe and friend, and mutual support is a place that can be fully developed. However, Coppola did not choose to show it. Instead, the character between female characters is limited by age, position and role, resulting in the character's character being functionalized and symbolized, not three-dimensional at all
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