The story of this film takes place in the 1950s. Although the status of women in the United States in the 1950s was gradually paid more attention, the feudal ideology in the upper class was still very serious. In Wellesley, a well-known women's university, most of the students have a good family background and have received an excellent education since childhood. However, the school's education for students is not to teach them how to acquire the subject knowledge they are interested in, nor does it attach importance to psychological education, but to define the success of students as future marriages. The purpose of their studies is nothing more than marrying a good husband. But our protagonist is an art teacher named Katherine Watson, a beautiful mature woman who just graduated from UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles), where she accepted liberal reform ideas and aspires to become a Distinguished professor. Such a warm, free mature woman at this school is very out of line with their traditionalist thinking. She decides to declare war on sacred marriage. She subverts traditional teaching and encourages Wellesley girls to abandon the roles they were born to play. She told the girls that books can tell us a lot of knowledge, but we also need to think independently by ourselves. We can choose to copy other people's lives, or we can choose to be ourselves.
If "Mona Lisa's Smile" simply shows that teachers who hold high the banner of female independence overcome the corrupt education system and influence ignorant and ignorant students, then the film will be cliché. What makes it different is that it is not any kind of feminist preaching, but conveys an attitude to the audience through the growth path of several heroines in the film: "The real independence and liberation of women, not It depends on what kind of social status one has, let alone a maverick attitude and a bohemian way of life, but whether he has the potential to choose his life independently without being driven by outside eyes."
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