An Education is a British coming-of-age drama film written by Nick Hornby and directed by Lone Scherfig. This film is based off of a memoir by Lynn Barber. It has won many film awards and was nominated for an Oscar. It took the World Cinema Audience award and Cinematography award for Drama in 2009.
An Education is about a sixteen year old girl, Jenny, who everything she does is for the purpose of getting into Oxford. Her father pushes her to only do things that will help her on getting into Oxford. Jenny is a girl who loves English, Latin and classical music. Her father deprives her of doing anything fun and exciting, anything Jenny loves. Everything changes when Jenny meets David, a man twice her age. He gives Jenny everything she has ever wished for and even manages to take her to Paris. Jenny falls in love with him only to find out he is a married man. She has left school and the pursuit to get into Oxford for this man and now she has to try to get it all back.
An Education was a really well done film. It had a high budget and you can definitely tell. Great locations and great cinematography, it definitely t contains a variety of different types of shots. I was really enjoying it up until I found out how old the girl was. You can't tell much of an age difference up until the girl says she is sixteen. Sixteen. She is sixteen and the man looks like he is 40. Oh wait, he is 41. Even though she does look older because Carey Mulligan is older, once she says hold old she is in the film, the whole movie was kinda ruined for me. It was just kinda creepy how he could be like 22 years older than her. I was just a little disturbed, especially when he touches her boobs. But, that could just me and other people might not see the creepiness. Moving on, when it comes to camera work, everything was phenomenally made. The thing I did notice a lot of where dissolved. When they are in Paris, for example, all we see is their day in Paris through a lot of dissolves. It was alright.
Very well made film but, the age thing just kinda ruined it for me. Oh and I didn't like the happy (not reality) type of ending. It just didn't have the type of indie film ending that I enjoy. I would say watch it just so you can tell me what you thought.
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