Another One Bites The Dust...
Whatever you do, don't go see Mona Lisa Smile. A few of my friends convinced me to go a few days ago, and it was horrible. Not just the regular type of horrible, like all the Charlie Sheen movies, but a horrible in a class by itself. I expected this movie to be a waste of my time, but I had at least hoped that my eight bucks would buy more than just watching Julia Roberts bitch for two hours.
" Boo-hoo, the school doesn't like the way i teach." Suck it up or get fired, like real teachers have to do. No one cares about your "new and radical" way of teaching. Conform dammit.
About halfway through the movie, when the conflict between the horrible lead...er...Julia Roberts, and the school management came up, I actually started to hope that it was the begginings of a plot. My hopes were quickly dashed though, when all that happened next was Roberts "falling in love" with another idiotic teacher that slept with his students. Ah well, we can't all be pedophiles.
About 20 minutes into the movie my pancreas exploded in a desperate attempt to get me out of the theatre, but my so called friends still wouldn't let me leave. I have to give the director some credit though...the plot actually tried to make an appearance once or twice, but Roberts apparently couldn't stand being out of the spotlight, and quickly bitch-slapped it back into submission.
The best part of this movie was the end, when my friend smacked me upside the head and told me to wake the hell up, it was time to go home. I think the movie must have been a secret attempt by the feminists to brainwash America. I mean, why else would it have been so mind numbingly boring and relentless. This movie was the theatrical equivalent of smashing your head repeatedly into a brick wall, only with less style and worse acting.
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In answer to your question Mellisa, Yes. If it was a choice between losing my job and teaching in a way that I "entirely disagree with," I'd choose the paycheck. Why? Because I'm not a complete dumbass.
And you know what else? We've had enough stories, books, movies, poems, essays, and drawings on the walls of caves that "excellently portray the lives of women" in every possible period of human history. Just because a movie excellently portrays something doesn't mean it's any good. I could make a movie excellently portraying a rock laying on a patch of grass, and it would still be horrible. (Though it would undoubtedly have a better lead than Mona Lisa Smile.)
Perhaps you meant to say "an accurate portrayal," because something can be excellent and not be accurate in the least. If this film was an accurate portrayal of the role of women during the 1950's, (not just a specifice event mind you, the whole time period) a teacher like Roberts would have been out on her ass without a job in a matter of days. Her reputation would have preceded her, and she would probably never have gotten a job as a teacher again. Thus she would be forced to either marry and become a housewife, or take a job as a waitress or a stewardess in order to support herself. THAT is an accurate portrayal of the role of women at the time.
You say the movie is excellent because of the accurate way it portrays women, and yet it only portrays half of the way things really were. If the movie leaves out details and facts in order to further the characters it is no longer accurate, and therefore by your own definition no longer excellent.
What a pity that the only actual argument in your post was rendered impotent by a glaring contradiction. Ah well, better luck next time.
I disagree. I enjoyed that movie...to point out an excerpt from your blog:
"" Boo-hoo, the school doesn't like the way i teach." Suck it up or get fired, like real teachers have to do. No one cares about your "new and radical" way of teaching. Conform dammit."
Paul, you want to be a teacher...am I correct? Then I must ask, when you become a teacher are you going to "conform dammit" if you disagree entirely with what is being taught? This story excellently portrayed the lives of women (in this case those that were privileged enough to go to college) in the 1950's.
P.S. Julia Roberts is awesome---and you know it. :)
I totally agree with every comment made here. The ending was the absolute worst! That movie was a huge disappointment.
I totally agree with every comment made here. The ending was the absolute worst! That movie was a huge disappointment.
Just wait until you see the cartoon I have in the upcoming issue of the Setonian, Paul... you'll enjoy it ;-)
Just wait until you see the cartoon I have in the upcoming issue of the Setonian, Paul... you'll enjoy it ;-)
I agree. I went with friends, only spent $4.75, and felt cheated.
Paul, I totally agree with you about this movie. I went to see it with a friend over break, and both of us were greatly disappointed. We had thought that it was going to be a romantic comedy, judging by the commercials that were on tv. There was no point to it at all, I thought the ending was horrible. Everything is left up in the air and unresolved. I'm a big fan of Julia Roberts, and this was the first time I was ever really disappointed by one of her movies.
Hehe, such a great descriptiion of the movie. I shall endevor to avoid that one like the plauge.