Rich girls are still so hard, ordinary people have to work harder

Violette 2022-04-22 07:01:31

The film mainly revolves around the stories of four female students, bety, John, kanni, liwei, and female teacher Katherine. The four girls bravely chose what they wanted to do and the person they loved.

Betty, finally left an unhappy marriage and gave up a superior and enviable life to pursue studies and pursue what she wanted to do.

Joan, it's not cowardly to choose the latter between career and family, she just chose what she loves more, everyone's definition of happiness is different, but as an audience, it's a pity, why can't you have both?

Connie, my favorite character, likes her heartbreaking when she finds out that she has misunderstood her boyfriend and finds out that she has lost her boyfriend, and likes her rushing to the boys' dormitory to confess and recover her happiness.

Grave, wild and uninhibited on the outside, very kind on the inside, really touched me when she hugged Betty.

In fact, this is a story about women's choices, but you found out that the four girls in the film are all well-educated, wealthy young ladies with superior family backgrounds, money and ability. They have the opportunity to choose, but what about ordinary people?

Ordinary girls, even if they have what they want to do, they still have a lot of constraints - funds, education... They have to work harder, no choice but to! Had to!

Mona Lisa's Smile (2003)
7.8
2003 / United States / Drama Love / Mike Newell / Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst

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  • Geo 2022-03-27 09:01:07

    Overall, this is a relatively unsuccessful film. What the film wants to express is too superficial, and the ideas conveyed in it are actually somewhat naive and unrealistic.

  • Toby 2021-12-11 08:01:34

    "Is she smiling? Is she happy?" The topic of women's pursuit of freedom and equality has always existed. They like the characters in the play and admire what they are doing (we don’t even have enough courage to do it)

Mona Lisa Smile quotes

  • [about Charlie Stewart]

    Connie Baker: We spent last weekend at the Cape! A little hideaway he knew about.

    Betty Warren: Operative word, 'hide'. Men take women to the Cape in the winter when they're embarrassed to be seen with them. He's using you.

    Giselle Levy: He's not using you if you want to go. Come here, don't listen to her.

    Betty Warren: I love you, and I swear I'm not saying this to hurt you. Charlie's promised to Deb McIntyre. She wears his pin. Giselle, you know it's true.

    Giselle Levy: I don't know anything about a pin.

    Connie Baker: Are her parents named Phillip and Vanessa?

    Betty Warren: You know them?

    Connie Baker: Only from a distance.

  • 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?