"Mona Lisa smile" we misunderstood

Bryon 2021-12-11 08:01:34

When I saw it for the first time, I was still a senior in high school. CCTV-6, the Chinese dubbed version, attracted me a little bit. I watched it the first time.
The second time, when I was in my sophomore year, I suddenly found that the computer at home could still download something at its extremely slow system speed. I watched it again and was deeply touched-women also need to do it for themselves.
The third time ......
fourth time ......
fifth pass ......
......
first N times ......
Once upon a time, this is my favorite movie.
It is now too.
On the N+2th pass, I remembered what I asked me: "Why do you like "Mona Lisa smile" so much? Actually, you are you, I don't know what you are like, so you just do what you want That's enough." I had an epiphany.
The core of the whole movie is actually not the transformation of Katherine and Betty from front to back, but Katherine's dialogue at Jaon's door-do what you want to do.
In fact, what this movie tells you is not that women should be completely free from the shackles of the family, and all traditions, etc. All of these are defined by us. All we have to do is to be ourselves and do what we want to do, whether it is a housewife or a business woman.
Perhaps this is the true essence of this movie. Human nature is that you will always be yourself.

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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?