Monday, August 9, 2010

Mona Lisa Smile




I liked this movie called Mona Lisa Smile. I was attracted to this movie because I put an expectation on this movie. I expected I could learn something from it since it was about a teacher who was facing a number of obstacles through out the years while she was teaching at the girl school.

Mona Lisa Smile was a very good movie and of course it was entertaining. Why I said so? It was because the story line was perfect and the actresses were great in playing their characters. I did enjoy it and I would definitely watch it again next time. From 5 stars, I gave it 4 stars as its ranking.

From the perspective of education, I noticed that this movie revealed how education was important at that time. The teacher tried many techniques to teach her students even though at the beginning of the movie, she faced a lot of problems. In fact, this movie portrayed how women at that time tried to be perfect by gaining knowledge and it made them looked as high standard women. The teacher did a very good hard work to make sure her students would be able to achieve their dreams and become who or what they wanted to be. She tried very hard to approach her students since her students were not sharing the same characteristics. She managed to do that. In fact, she taught about life and she made the students looked at life in different ways and perspectives. That was the reason why she left her students to look at a huge painting and asked them to interpret the painting based on their own opinion. It was a beautiful job that had been done by the teacher.

As a future teacher, like I said before, I loved the way the teacher taught her students to look at life in different perspectives. Different students might have different interpretation. I wanted to make changes in my students' lives just like what had been done by the great teacher in Mona Lisa Smile.

1 comment:

  1. Yup, the way the teacher in Mona Lisa Smile inspires her students to view life in various perspectives is indeed fascinating. It must be shocking when the teacher realizes that she is not educating students to succeed in life or realizing their dreams, but educating students that will eventually be wives only.

    All in all, this story enlightens us on the importance to teach our students about how to live, dream and think for themselves, without holding back from societal unwritten rules.

    Good educator teaches, great educator inspires.

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