The reaction of my older brother to this movie was "Worst Movie Ever." That's an interesting thing to say. I myself thought it was fantastic. Sure on the surface the film seems creepy, and probably pretty disturbing, but the surface is not the point of most films. To bad certain people can't see past it. See An Education is about a 32 year old man who seduces a 16 year old girl in 1961. Ok so fairly odd, but joyous all the same. Passionate all the same. And at the most interesting. I find that when I encounter a film that is rated well by critics I am disappointed. Not in any terrible way the films are still good, and yet they seem to be missing a beating heart. For better or worse An Education has one. This can be found in a spectacular performance by Carey Mulligan. She is naive,but also excited by the entire thing. This actually is enough to distract from the somewhat questionable material that is found in the film. Also what helps probably the most underrated actor of his time Peter Sarsgaard putting on one heck of a performance as well. I don't know what is was, but all of this developed into a very interesting film. I enjoyed it. That's not to say that this is a perfect film. I feel that the ending is a little bit of a cop out as far as the dramatic punch that the film could have thrown,but the one that we got was still impressive if not exactly as deep as it could have been. And of course the elephant in the room that is the whole 32 year old man 16 year old girl thing is somewhat unavoidable as well as my very gullible personality absorbing every bit of that "Worst Movie Ever" talk. But than again that's more personal if anything. I give An Education an 8 out of 10.
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