Movie night

[本周三，FEC电影之夜]成长教育An Education

本周三（10月19日），FEC英语沙龙将首次开启电影之夜，欢迎各位同学届时光临。
本次放映的影片为《成长教育》，英文名就叫An Education *注意英文中的斜体字往往是专有名词或者书籍影视作品的名字哦~

以下内容节选自知乎——《成长教育》一片好在哪里
简介：
片子不长，一个半小时左右，叙事简洁有力。
1961年，英国乡下女子学校的姑娘Jenny Mellor（Carey Mulligan饰）自小在一个对物质极为敏感的家庭长大，16岁的她满腹诗书、才华横溢，被大家公认为最有希望考取Oxford（牛津大学）的【种子选手】。
一场大雨中的邂逅让Jenny结识了毕业于【University of Life】的气质潇洒迷人的成熟男David Goldman（Peter Sarsgaard饰），随即陷入一场高端的【万劫不复】——在David带给她灯红酒绿的世界中，出入自如的Jenny逐渐遗忘了考取名校的初衷，在这个男人带给她的前所未有的高品质生活中沉沦，甚至愿意委身于他、放弃学业嫁他为妻。
一次偶然的契机使得Jenny识破David已婚的身份，Jenny这才幡然醒悟生活的真正意义所在，毅然决然地和过去一刀两断，凭借自身不懈努力成功考取理想名校，在牛津认识了年纪相当、情投意合的新男友，开始了真正属于17岁的Jenny的新生活。

英文简介来自喂鸡百科：
Plot: In 1961 London, Jenny Mellor is a 16-year-old schoolgirl preparing for Oxford University when she meets a charming older man driving a Bristol 405,
David Goldman, who pursues her romantically. He takes her to concerts,
clubs and fine restaurants, easily charming and manipulating her parents
into approving of the relationship. Later, Jenny discovers that David
is a con man who makes money through a variety of shady practices. She
is initially shocked but silences her misgivings in the face of David's
charm. Jenny's parents invite Graham, a boy Jenny knows from Youth
Orchestra, to Jenny's birthday party but David arrives and Graham goes
home. A few days later, David takes Jenny to Paris as a birthday gift,
where she loses her virginity to him. When David proposes marriage,
Jenny accepts and leaves school. However, she later discovers David is
already married. When she reveals her discovery to David, he drops out
of sight. Jenny despairs, feeling she has thrown her life away but, with
the help of her favourite teacher, resumes her studies and is accepted
at Oxford the following year.

是的，其实只是一个小女生想傍大款，然后失败的故事。
但是这部片子有一股子说不上来的魅力，让人看过之后久久不能释怀。也许是典型的英国乡村，也许是女主的校服和连衣裙太美，或者是这么美的女孩会法语会拉丁语，懂得鉴赏高档艺术品，梦寐以求的地方是巴黎，等等等等。反正就是，融化了资深美少女的心。

片中曾提到过女子学校当时很多学生在读《简爱》这本名著，老师对这本书的态度却始终阴晴不定，这也是影片的一个暗示：相似的开头，却不一定拥有相似的结局——不是每一个女人都是简爱，不是每一个简爱都能遇到罗彻斯特，不是每一个简爱遇到罗彻斯特的故事都是可以被justify的。

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Angela

Hi there, I'm Angela, an IELTS/TOEFL teacher. I graduated from University of Bath, a prestigious university located in southwest England, with master degree of TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages). Before becoming an ESL teacher, I worked in a multinational shipping company for six years.
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