Mona Lisa Smile

I read a book called 'Mona Lisa Smile'. And yesterday night I also saw its movie which starring by Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles and Maggie Gyllenhaal.

Book always better than its on a motion, because it provides you much more details about the background or psychological struggle of every character. But this movie is also very fascinating.

The story is about Katherine Watson, an UCLA graduate accepted a position of Art History Professor at Wellesley College, a prestigious and well known girls school in New London, USA. She did not decide to merge into the delicate tradition of this historical institution, instead, she intended to change their mind. She introduced Modern Arts to students, to encourage them to perceive thing in different perspective. She wanted all girls to be leaders of the future, not the wife of the leaders. She wanted to set the mind of these smartest women in the nation free.

Katherine was proud of her avant garde thinking and dynamic life. However, in the society where the women’s future was determined by a wedding ring instead of their education and effort, she faced lots of obstacles to advocate her idea. Through the interaction with girls and all kind of struggle, she realized that actually the school also helped her to find her own way, she understood that everyone can choose the living way whatever they like. A girl could be a lawyer, and at the same time she could choose to be a full-time housewife, and it did not make her less smart or brainless to be a housewife. Daring to be yourself and trust your choice is the main message I got from this story.

I am not going to tell you the whole story here, because I highly recommend you to see find it and feel it by yourself!!