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At first glance, the marking of a British film that somehow has been able to be produced without the subjects of James Bond, The Beatles, or even World War II, or even homosexuality, could well be observed as original.
However, it is a surprise that almost immediately a film that buzzes with such a fine soundtrack and the possible lack of stereotypical characters even came into fruition.
This is not a film that is entirely unusual, or keeping away from the acceptable rules of reasonable predictability within British cinema. ‘An Education’ is actually a considerable effort to bring something new to a film.
Approachable and completely inoffensive
Keeping to a script and well intended as a warning to the youth of adolescence and raising the important question of what exactly is education’s purpose essentially? This film does the duty but with careful reassurance.
Granted that timing is everything in a film’s release, it is really this fact that would call ‘An Education’ to be nominated for three Academy Awards. Although Carey Mulligan is an actress that turns a well intended idea into a study of the besotted.
Yet the film remains approachable and completely inoffensive. It actually works well as a study on safe acting, but the subject is lightly handled rather than films such as Lindsay Anderson’s ‘If’. Pondering on the British education system.
Away from the formulaic
The problem is that British cinema becomes worthwhile when it is not formulated and predictable. Yet it is only this formula that producers think audiences want.
Directors such as Lone Scherfig and writer Nick Hornby have a formulated script and ‘An Education’ only rocks the boat through its soundtrack marginally. Ex-patriots will probably be joyful of its release.
