"Growing Up Education" Film Review

Joannie 2022-04-21 09:01:56

After watching this film, I feel a sense of empathy. Also as a female student, I can understand what the protagonist has experienced. She was a girl who lost her footing in that era. In the end, she got up and became a famous reporter. What's so touching about this story is that it's so real, as if it could happen to anyone. It's just that I don't know if this happened to us, how many of us would be able to stand up like her and realize our dreams. Her life that was delayed for a year is the treasure of her life, which made her change from an ignorant girl to a woman who understands the impermanence of the world.
She is indeed smart, but in this materialistic society, luxury goods and the wonderful dream of Paris blinded her eyes. How can she get these? With her charm as a high school girl? Nothing comes without a price, and nothing comes in vain. Her price is deception, and the final truth is her punishment. A gratuitous punishment for her foolish vanity ignorance.
God is fair, giving and receiving are equal. This is the "growth education" that this film teaches us. No pains, no gains.

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  • Jenny: [Reading from envelopes she found in David's car] Mr. and Mrs. David Goldman. Mr. and Mrs. David Goldman. Mr. and Mrs. David- you're married!

    David: Legally yes, but...

    Jenny: When were you going to tell me?

    David: Soon, it just never seemed like the right time. You seemed so happy, and I was happy...

    Jenny: You were living with your wife all this time, around the corner! Byron Avenue. It's no wonder we kept bumping into each other, is it? What number?

    David: 34. Don't be like this, come on.

    Jenny: I have nothing. I didn't take my exams. I... I left school. Where's it all gone now?

  • Jack: We have to have this out. Well, if you won't do it, I will. I'm still your father.

    Jenny: You're my father again now, are you? And what were you when you encouraged me to throw my life away? Silly schoolgirls are always getting seduced by glamorous older men, but what about you two?