An education

An education is set in England in the 1960s. The opening of the film represents what life was like at a girls grammer school. It gave us a good insight as to what they use to do and learn, for example not only did they do vocational studies such as english they also learnt how to cook and they all had to join in at school physical education lessons. It portays life as exciting and 'on the go'

The main character               is a 16 year old girl who is currently attending this grils grammer school with high hopes of going on to Oxford to read English. Her life in the early stages of the film so far seems to be based on average excitement and hardwork. She was content but was and has not been let of the leash so to speak. Her mother entails a typical women in the 1960s, she is a house wife devoted to maintaining the house keeping it in good order and looking after her husband and daughter.

However her life take a dramatic twist when a slightly older, handsome and charming man offers her some help in getting her cello home unscathed from the rain. As she gets more into her relationship with this man she starts to get more wild and starts living the 'highlife'! The title is cleverly labelled as an education points to her not only learning in school (an enclosed enviroment) but she starts to learn about life outside school and leanrs to have fun and freedom. She also learns from her mistakes especially when the young man drops the bomb shell on her that he is already married.