Mona Lisa Smile (A movie review)

Spending two hours in an the audio visual room might be a torture for a laid back and quirky guy like me specially if the show does not lightens up one's interest. But not until this day when my teacher in my summer class humanities subject let us watch a movie entitled Mona Lisa Smile starring Julia Roberts who portrays the role of an Art History teacher back in 1953.

On a perspective of an art student like me, the storyline of the movie focuses on the art of perfection of a person's life. The struggle of acceptance in a society where everybody seems to have a say in everything you do.

There's a line in the movie that really captures my interests, which says, " Not everything is as it seems", thus what we see might only be a product of our imagination and individual perception. That even the perfect smile of Mona Lisa is not even as perfect as it is, because just like us, we try to hide something and escape from things that we perceive to cause us with unbearable pain and grief.