The story of a California art history teacher who came to a very conservative Wesleyan Girls’ School. Another: the school that the three Song sisters in our country also attended. There is a background that in the mid-1950s the American ethos was to return to the family. At that time, people's ideas were very conservative. Women had to wear tights, shape their waists, wear abdominal belts, and take marriage as the sacred mission. Of course, the American feminist movement in the 1960s was coming soon, the anti-Vietnam War, then sexual liberation, and finally the return of the traditional family in the 1970s and 1980s. . Pulling away. Against this background, in 1954, Katherine, don't call Miss Watson, came to Wesley, and in the process of teaching, he invisibly spread the open mind of California to her students through art education. Among them is Betty, who is under the strict supervision of her mother and does not have her own opinion. For a husband who does not even touch her, she strictly guards the woman's way and does something that makes people laugh and is not only crazy. There is Giselle, who is striving for love, and her parents' divorce is concealed very well in the local area. Then there is Joan, who is both family and courageous in choosing. I like her the most. She is smart and considerate. Connie and her boyfriend had a misunderstanding. There was a period when she broke into the boys' dormitory, as if the memory of youth was back again, and she wanted to laugh when she looked cordially.
Katherine's smile is so warm, it infects other people invisibly, and it also infects me. When she showed her students a painting by Pollock, the master of abstract art, the students were puzzled. What she said: I don't let you write any papers, and I don't want you to like it, but I just want you to think about it. Another: This painting is so big, the size of the entire wall, Pollock, who came to the museum last month, is only 18 by 18 cm. Of course, I can see it clearly. Katherine brought beauty to others, hoping to use creativity to change her life, but Wesley’s female principal added an unreasonable curriculum supervision system to her new contract. Three chapters were agreed, and at the end, she finally resigned. But her independence, creativity, unconventional, strong, and caring still changed the lives of people there, allowing them to break through the fetters they set for themselves. Teachers affect students like spring breeze, let alone such a teacher. The way Betty said goodbye to Katherine at the end was moving. She also bravely moved towards her own life instead of living under the influence of her mother. Katherine seemed calm about the arrival of her boyfriend who had not been in contact for three months. For her own consciousness, her boyfriend was puzzled and had to leave. She was strong and chose the way she thought was right, instead of looking for him. Wesleyan Girls’ School is estimated to be the most conservative university in the United States. It’s ridiculous that feminism and sexual liberation have followed one after another. Now it seems that there is no esoteric truth in this movie. The practices in it were all opened up in China ten years ago. "The people are the creators of history." Who said he forgot. But it gives hope. Especially when you are decadent, watching this film will be more therapeutic.
Of course, men and women in the United States are not equal to a certain extent. Men and women in China are now much more equal to a certain extent than before. Although the movie is over, my thinking has been frozen for a long time. Its ideological nature is not comparable to that of a golden armour, which is why the golden armour failed at the Oscars. Can the golden armour reflect real problems? Although the influence of the American sexual liberation movement in the 1960s on the world was not direct, it was indirect. This film is an excellent film that positively describes women's pursuit of self-awareness and value. It discusses how women should live and how valuable they live, including divorce, marriage, extramarital affairs, and the relationship between women and their families.
If the film can make people think, its meaning will not be as good as after watching it.
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