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In Reply to: RE: An excellent picture.Excellent is just another word for understatement. posted by patrickU on March 20, 2010 at 12:03:48
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..especially for Nick Hornby's wonderfully humane and witty script, the way he takes characters whose outlines could easily be too broad and fills them in with shades of light and dark, drama and humor. They all have so much energy and texture, even the minor roles, that you (or at least I couldn't) help but find them compelling.
The story is hardly a new one, but through director Lone Scherfig's skill and the actors' beautifully observed performances we see the world through the protagonist's (Jenny's) young eyes. We are charmed by Sarsgaard's David and the allure of a more glamorous life right along with Jenny, even though we know he's far too good to be true. We are fascinated as David manipulates Jenny and her well meaning but unsophisticated parents. And we understand Jenny's frustrations and fierce longings - some of us no doubt felt those same longings for excitement and adventure ourselves at a similar age. But what exactly does David's smooth charm hide and how hard will be Jenny's fall?
The filmmakers evoke a wonderful sense of time and place, a rather grey and staid post-war London: before the sexual revolution, before swinging London, before the youth quake, when snagging a husband was one of the main goals of higher education, not just earning a degree (in the US as well as UK BTW). They also deftly capture the hopes and insecurities of Jenny's parents which render them so vulnerable to manipulation by the likes of David. And most importantly, while eventually shown to be no better than we feared him to be, they succeed in making David a flawed human being and not merely a cardboard villain.
The movie steers carefully away from cliche. And what is at stake is enormous. It's not a tale of a silly schoolgirl but of a vibrant young woman's search for identity. Jenny finds out there are no shortcuts in life and blythe choices can have emotionally devastating consequences - surely that's the story of us all. Carey Mulligan's star-making turn captures a time in a most memorable young woman's life in such indelible fashion you are completely captivated.
It's easy for those who are not especially observant to dismiss this movie. But An Education is about so much more than a young girl trying to get a place at university.
I am not surprised that our resident French cinophile got it.
I did particularly like the way like the way as David at some point rejoined her father saying, " you got not the money out of the trees".
And the parents were very understanding and of course naive.
Later Jenny will make a point to have act in a too permissive way!
That is funny and oh so true.
You can NEVER satisfy kids of that age...
I love Horby. He cut it off fresh from the living cow.
If I may say so.
About a boy was also...I like it.
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I thought An Education was wonderful.
But I don't see much of a connection with Withnail & I.
An Education would seem to have more influences from 60s British "kitchen sink" dramas like Poor Cow, although I suspect there's a healthy dose of Georgie Girl in there too.
As I am too.
I try to think back why did it appear to my mind while watching it.
Maybe because it is a study in time. In their own time.
Yes must be it.
A wonderful picture indeed.
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Withnail and I is a British comedy and succeeds brilliantly at being funny. Good comedies are rare. An Education is a very sober drama, quite well made and enjoyable, but nothing I would really be drawn to view a 2nd time, at least not for a long time. I've seen Withnail and I at least 5 times and, since I have the DVD, maybe I will see it again now.
I don't get the comparison at all. Then again, I found Avatar much more enjoyable than An Education, so I'm not on your wavelength in any case.
dfs
At best a tragic-comedy.
For me a tragedy.
And an Education is not a drama. On the contrary it is an optimistic story.
No obviously not.
however a comedy it assuredly is.
It is replete with comic circumstances and characters, including the uncle's infatuation with "I." This played for big laughs when I saw it in a theater.
On all movie databases, this is classified as a comedy. You may have become insular like Carroll's Humpty Dumpty:
"When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, `it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less."
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More a drama as a comedy.
Comedie humaine yes!
We will analyze that. Even if we have to wake up uncle Sigmund.
Now I am baffled.
And I saw him twice or on top one more time.
A comedy*.
Never.
* With one possible exception: La Comedie Humaine from old Honore. In hat case I would fully agree.
Now a comedie?
NT
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Shaking in my boots.
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Doesn't look like it. I am one happy old geezer.
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