蒙娜丽莎的微笑 英文影评

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导演：迈克·纽维
上映日期：2003年12月19日(意大利上映) 对白：英语
预告片：[1] 时长：117分钟
分级：澳大利亚：PG 阿根廷：13 西班牙：7 香港：IIA
类型： 剧情 (论坛) 喜剧 (论坛)

主演：朱莉娅·罗伯茨 柯尔斯滕·邓斯特 朱莉娅·斯泰尔斯 玛吉·吉伦哈尔
剧情介绍： 1953年，坐落在美国马萨诸塞州、被誉为"没有男子的常青藤"的威斯理女子学院，新来了位艺术史老师，名叫凯瑟琳·沃森（朱莉娅·罗伯茨 饰），她是个接受了自由改革思想，美丽成熟的女人。她负责在卫斯理一所著名的女子大学任职，这里的学生们大都有着良好的家庭背景，从小接受过优秀的教育。但学院作风保守，从不重视学生的心理教育。凯瑟琳没有像其他老师那样沿袭学校一贯的教学风格，她不仅挑战学校的一些传统法规，而且鼓励学生发掘自己的兴趣，并且大胆去实践她们的想法。最终她以青春率直的作风，丰富的艺术史知识以及风趣热情的授课风格，赢得了学生们的尊敬和爱戴，被女学生称为“蒙娜丽莎”。本片多次被影评赞誉为能教化人心，隽永再三的影史佳片。

Mona Lisa Smile tells the story of Katherine Ann Watson, in 1950s, a feminist teacher who studied at UCLA graduate school makes good use of art teaching as a tool to open Wellesley College girls' minds and eyes for the sake of their better lives. During her campaign with the girls even the old-guards, she sails close to the wind ,after ups and downs, misunderstanding and misinterpretation, and finally she reach her goal that brings girls a big insight to find their different role at home and soceity rather than the stereotypes of women made by society, or the roles made for them by society, as women born to become housewives and mothers.
I've learned some lesson from this movie. The most important lesson I learn by heart is that in the first place, we must strive for our freedom for life to act and do on our own will and then we must carry on the responsibilities ascribing to our decisions whatever we make.
As I see it , what Katherine has succeed to tell them to free of platitude and conservatism, but it is a pity that she also falls into another extremism trap that make her seems less tolerable about other people's life styles against her recommendation because as we know ,there is not one size can fit all, and so does the life style. That is to say, if a girl is free to make a decision as a house wife and give up her chance to be affiliated to Yale university, we should respect her decision rather than scoff at her rigidity and stupidity if she haven’t followed our suggestions and recommendations.
As a matter of fact, whatever conservative life style, progressive life style and the middile-of-the-road life style must be respected and tolerated if our society is really open and free. Withou wrong and right, it is up to you to decide what your life is , but you should not steer clear of your duty if you fail to reach your aim.

MONA LISA SMILE
Running time: 117 mins
Starring: Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dominic West, Marcia Gay Harden

Julia Roberts takes on the Robin Williams role in this engaging female variation on Dead Poets Society. Mona Lisa Smile is set in Wellesley, "the most conservative college in the nation" in the 1950's. The privileged students are taught invaluable rules of etiquette and propriety, like how to cross and uncross their legs, as a means to attract a suitable husband. Wellesley openly prepares its pupils not for careers but for lives of domesticity and subservience. Thrust into this staid arena, as Wellesley's new history of art teacher, is the freethinking and liberal Katherine Watson (Julia Roberts).

Written by two men, Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal, and directed by Mike Newell, best known for his hilarious depiction of upper class antics in Four Weddings And A Funeral, Mona Lisa Smile takes a pointed stance on the stifling morals and expectations imposed on the country's elite young women in mid-century America.

Inspiring teachers and their impact on their students is a well that has been dipped into many times before in movies like Mr Holland's Opus and Dangerous Minds, but it's the gentrified setting of Dead Poets Society that draws the obvious comparisons here. Newell has assembled a masterful cast, especially to portray the students who range from the bitterly cruel Betty (Kirsten Dunst) to the stubbornly grounded Joan (Julia Stiles) to the promiscuous Giselle (Maggie Gyllenhaal).

Smart but inexperienced, Watson is initially unsettled when faced with a class full of bright and well prepared pupils, but her trepidation proves unfounded when she discovers that away from the security of the syllabus, the girls are less assured. Along with expanding their minds, she encourages them not accept the defined roles that have been mapped out for them. Her "subversive" teaching methods cause her problems with the faculty, but endear her to her students who come to embrace her as a liberating and inspiring figure.

Inevitably in a film involving Roberts, there's a romantic element. As Watson adapts to her new life, she is torn between an old flame (John Slattery), the Wellesley womaniser Dunbar (Dominic West) and her fierce independence. Roberts does a wonderful job of capturing the vivacity and integrity of Watson succeeding, as she did in Erin Brockovich, in being able to transcend her looks and add substance to that smile.