http://thistooismeaningless.com/2010/03/an-education/ Tim Irwin's movie reviews, ranging from the obscure and inane to the recently released. Sat, 12 May 2012 22:38:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://thistooismeaningless.com/2010/03/an-education/comment-page-1/#comment-1268 Tim Irwin Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:33:46 +0000 http://thistooismeaningless.com/?p=2536#comment-1268 I probably didn't get all of the small period details, but I was curious about David giving her a lift at the beginning. Was it treated so delicately so that today's modern viewer would not be inordinately creeped out, or because that's what life was like at the time? I almost wondered if British folks in 1961 were as innocent as American movies would have you believe America was at the same time. I probably didn’t get all of the small period details, but I was curious about David giving her a lift at the beginning. Was it treated so delicately so that today’s modern viewer would not be inordinately creeped out, or because that’s what life was like at the time? I almost wondered if British folks in 1961 were as innocent as American movies would have you believe America was at the same time.

]]> http://thistooismeaningless.com/2010/03/an-education/comment-page-1/#comment-1267 Candace Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:17:36 +0000 http://thistooismeaningless.com/?p=2536#comment-1267 Yep. You pretty much hit everything I loved about it. I was especially impressed with Alfred Molina's performance, and was pretty disappointed he didn't get nominated for Best Supporting Actor. As for Carey Mulligan, she's becoming one of my new favorites. Also, I was happy to see how well they pulled off the period. One of my favorite lines was when Jenny is telling Emma Thompson that she doesn't want to care about school if she's only going to be a boring schoolteacher, and Emma says "It doesn't have to be teaching. There's always the civil service." I thought the film made several of those subtle historically-accurate sort of nods to the era. Yep. You pretty much hit everything I loved about it. I was especially impressed with Alfred Molina’s performance, and was pretty disappointed he didn’t get nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
As for Carey Mulligan, she’s becoming one of my new favorites.
Also, I was happy to see how well they pulled off the period. One of my favorite lines was when Jenny is telling Emma Thompson that she doesn’t want to care about school if she’s only going to be a boring schoolteacher, and Emma says “It doesn’t have to be teaching. There’s always the civil service.” I thought the film made several of those subtle historically-accurate sort of nods to the era.

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