Say Cheese MONALISA

I just love the spirits and the determination shown in this story.What else i can say,It was so inspiring seeing this movie.( How i may say it is not a good movie seeing all the beautiful lady walk in a row)......Mona Lisa Smile is a movie about feminism starring one of the biggest women actors and three of the better younger women actors in Hollywood. And, it is written and directed by three men.This story started when  new Art History teacher Ann Willis comes hoping to change the world. Willis is a Berkeley grad, awash in the burgeoning theories of feminism. Women can and should be able to do whatever they want. They do not have to be housewives. They are perfectly capable of being lawyers, teachers, or whatever the heck they want to be. She chose Wellesley because they have the best and brightest female students who have the capability of becoming next generation's leaders. What she does not count on is that Wellesley is fiercely conservative, and her ideas clash with the endemic, old-fashioned values cherished there.

Willis wants to teach her students about modern art, which angers the faculty, and only increases her resolve to do so. Bill Dunbar, Italian teacher and eventual love interest, encourages her to work within the system, but Willis doesn't listen. Director Mike Newell  wants this to be an inspirational weepy, but that's hard to do when the film is bereft of any genuine emotion. Everybody is just going through the motions, doing what screenwriters Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal  require them to do. They do have somewhat of a difficult job to do. It's important to remember that although this takes place in the recent past , views on a woman's place were extremely different. Somehow, Konner and Rosenthal need to have people relate to the ideas that most of the characters in the film believe in.

A great issues that highlighted by 3 men had made people were to see a great feminism and challenged face by woman those day. Somehow it open up my eyes to put myself in their shoes "at that time" only....to me..they are so tough...