American Beauty

Frieda 2021-12-11 08:01:34

Watching this kind of movie is willing to find and feel what it wants to convey to us. Of course, such things cannot be easily discovered by people. Moreover, each has its own different understanding.
I think that the film will allow the female teacher Catherine to teach students an independent female outlook on life, guide them along the way, and then find true love.
Obviously, it is impossible for a classic movie to follow such a cliché.
The change first appeared in her behavior towards love. She undeniably became a betrayer in her relationship with Paul. Although she missed him very much and his arrival made her happy, she still called Paul bill. . Is she unwilling to be restrained or not ready? Maybe men have already lost their original dominance. Women can refuse their marriage proposal or take away their jobs.
Catherine is not an all-knowing and almighty narrator and changer. Although the new boyfriend Bill has a bad reputation and is accustomed to lying, this sentence is correct: "You are not here to help them find their way, but to help you. Find your own way."
Catherine helped Joan apply for Yale University's law department and told her that marriage and school can have both, but in the end Joan gave up the opportunity to study and planned to go to other cities with her newly married husband. Say, I have to choose, I don't want to give up my family.
Catherine said to the newly married student Betty, I hope you will come in every class and do every homework, or I will plead you off. She taught her to have her own career and friends, not to give up everything for marriage. Betty writes editorials and is used to criticizing others with her own eyes, but she has never realized that her meanness stems from her fear of life and desire for things she can't get.
Giselle, who is judged by others as a prostitute, loves her teacher, Bill, because she is crazy because she can't get him. She goes on dates with other people who can be her fathers, flirts with strange men, and she and her teacher and girlfriend Same, suffering in the choice of love.
In fact, just like in the end, Catherine gave up the opportunity to teach at Wesley. When she came, she wanted to use her thoughts to change the school, but in the end she found that she could not. The environment and system, especially the tradition, cannot be done overnight. Changed, she left here for Europe. What we need is not a person to teach us how to look at the world, but to find our own way and goal of viewing the world instead of others.
The students have found their families, careers, and love. They are all around them, following their own footsteps.
Of course Catherine is the same.
The smile of Mona Lisa is not something others can penetrate. Whether they are newly grown or middle-aged American beauties, they are about to have a completely self-impossible life.

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Mona Lisa Smile quotes

  • Betty Warren: Have you seen Spencer?

    Connie Baker: [in tears] No. But I did see Charlie Stewart. And he told me that he and Deb broke up last summer. And you told me that they were together when he invited me to the Cape.

    Betty Warren: Oh Connie, I don't keep track of his dates. They've been on-again, off-again for the past few years.

    Connie Baker: No, no apparently they've been off-again for a while. For quite a while.

    Betty Warren: So?

    Connie Baker: So you made me believe that he was hiding me! Either way, why couldn't you let me be happy?

  • Bill Dunbar: [to Katherine] You didn't come to Wellesley to help people find their way. You came to Wellesley to help people find *your* way.