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1、外語系0805020102608-B王芳What your understanding of the title 'Mona Lisa Smile'?Mona Lisa Smile is a funny, inspiring and uplifting film about an art history professor with a lot to teach about life and much to learn about romance. The title is a reference to the Mona Lisa, the famous painting by

2、 Leonardo da Vinci, and the song of the same name, originally performed by Nat King Cole, which was covered by Seal for the movie.In 1953, Katherine Ann Watson, takes a position teaching "History of Art" at Wellesley College, a conservative women private liberal arts college in Massachuset

3、ts because she wants to make a difference and influence the next generation of women. At her first class, Katherine discovers that the girls have already memorized the entire syllabus from the textbook so she instead uses the classes to introduce them to Modern Art and encourages spirited classroom

4、discussions about topics such as what makes good art and what the Mona Lisa' s smile means. This brings her into conflict with the conservative College President who warns Katherine to stick to the syllabus if she wants to keep her job. Katherine comes to know many of the students in her class w

5、ell and seeks to inspire them to seek more than marriage to eligible young men. Joan Brand wyn dreamed of being a lawyer and enrolled as pre-law, so Katherine encourages her to apply to Yale Law School, where she is accepted. Joan, however, elopes with her fiance Tommy, is very happy and decides tha

6、t what she wants most is to be a wife and mother after graduation and ask Katherine to respect her choice. We are pretty sure what the story of "Mona Lisa Smile" will be (the inspiring teacher will overcome adversity to enlighten and guide), but the movie is more observant and thoughtful t

7、han we expect. It doesn't just grind out the formula, but seems more like the record of an actual school year than about the needs of the plot. In the delicate dance of audience identification, we get to be both the teacher and her students - to imagine ourselves as a free spirit in a closed sys

8、tem, and as a student whose life is forever changed by her. But, you're wondering, how can I identify with a 30ish teacher and her 20ish female students? Don't you find yourself identifying with just about anybody on the screen, if the movie is really working? Katherine Watson is smart and b

9、rave and stands by her beliefs, and so of course she reminds us of ourselves.The movie is not really about her romances at all, but about her function as a teacher and her determination to install feminism on the campus before that noun was widely in use. The movie, directed by Mike Newell, may be a little too aware of its sexual politics and might have been more absorbing if Katherine and her students were fighting their way together out of the chains of gender slavery. But the characters involve us, we sympathize with their dreams and de