Analysis Of An Education

In Mrs Scott's past two lessons we watched a  British film called An Education and was asked to write an analysis about it. I've done it already but thought i'd post it on my blog to because i haven't been able to find a working printer.

Analysis of the film ‘An Education’

I really enjoyed watching An Education in my media lesson and I understand why it was such a successful British film. An Education is a 2009 British coming-of-age drama film, based on an autobiographical article in Granta by British journalist Lynn Barber. Carey Mulligan (Jenny Mellor) is one of the main characters along with her charmer Peter Sarsgaard (David Goldman) who is nearly double her age.  

The plot of the film is basically about a 16 year old school girl (Jenny Mellor) who is an excellent student in school and has a lot of interests trying to make her dream come true which is to go to Oxford University. All her hard work and the help of her strict surrounding pay off well until she meets a charming older man called David Goldman.

David starts to take Jenny out to concerts, clubs, and fine restaurants regularly and as a young 16 year old girl Jenny loves the life he allows her to experience and the way he treats her. He manages to easily charm her parents into approving of the relationship.

However,  soon  into the film things start to go a little downhill when Jenny recognizes that David is a con man,  at first she is shocked  and doesn’t approve of this so she decides to no longer stick around. Unfortunately her decision to walk away doesn’t last very long as David manages to persuade her he isn’t doing anything wrong and Jenny falls for his persuasive charm.

After having a little more fun David asks Jenny to marry him, no surprise Jenny accepts and drops out of school convinced she no longer needs education because wealthy David can give her everything she wants. A very short while after the proposal Jenny finds out another very shocking secret that David had been keeping from her. He was already married! When she confronts David about her heart breaking discovery he returns to his old family and doesn’t appear again.

In the end Jenny realizes that she had made foolish decisions so she pulls herself back together and does everything she possibly can to get into Oxford University.  Luckily she manages to get help from her previous tutor and all ends well although she never sees David again.