Educating Rita
14. 9. 2009
Rita is a twenty- six year old hairdresser from Liverpool, who had decided to get an education. Not the sort of education that would get her just a better job or more pay, but an education that would open up for her a whole new world- a liberal education. Rita wants to be a different person and live an altogether different sort of life than she has been living so far.
The story is presented in the form of a comedy, a comedy that revolves around the personal and pedagogical relationship between Rita and her main tutor, Dr. Frank Bryant. Frank teaches comparative literature and it is his job to prepare Rita for her exams. Unfortunately, Frank has lost all ethusiasm for his academic field and it‘s related teaching duties.
When Rita appears at Frank´s office for their first tutorial session, however, the two také a sort of liking to each other. Rita is a bright, vivacious, charming and good looking woman. „Why didn´t you walk in here twenty years ago?“ Frank exclaims. He is twice her age and looks somewhat disheveled, but he impresses his new student by his irreverent humor and easy-going manner.
At the end of „Educating Rita“ Frank is sent to Australia. His conduct at the Universityis not tolerated any longer. Australia was a former penal colony where England sent her convicts, mostly victims of the social conditions that had the kingdoms lower classes at the time. It is a welcome way of saying goodbye to the worn-out culture for which he has no more use. Australia is New World. Proposing to Rita that she go with him to this new beginning, he points out that in Australia everything is only just starting, while in England everything is ending. It would be a radical new start.
Rita declines the invitation, but in essence she embraces the same idea: a new kind of existence, that lies beyond the old forms of life. By having overcome the limitations of her old world through education and by recognizing the limitations of what she has acquired at the University, she finds herself in the same situation as Frank. This is the end of the essence of her education. What Rita thanks Frank for at he end and what has made him a good teacher during all her trials, is that he helped her to get into this position: „You have given me a choice.“
My opinion:
I like this film so much. It was a very sensitive and beautiful movie about a friendship between an old teacher and young student, about her own personal life and much more.
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