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Brodie was refreshingly different than the noble Keating (Dead Poets)


I enjoyed this movie and Maggie Smith's performance very much.
Typically these movies, marketed to a younger crowd, show the one teacher who stands up for enlightened education and support of the students.
That teacher is typically brought down by the "establishment".
Well, what if said teacher is a real basket case?
Think of the damage she can do to young minds. Supporting Franco, albeit before we say what he would do, and Mussolini.
This was different than Dead Poet's Society and thank God for that.
Very flawed was Miss Jena Brodie and we are the better for seeing it.

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But not like the end of Lindsay Anderson's "If..."!

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How right you are!!
"IF...." was in a league of its own.

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She just struck me as juvenile. Like a young girl with dreams of superficial things - art and beauty but no practical knowledge. No need to encourage that in young girls any more than they will already be obsessed with it.

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She was a romantic visionary who.couldn't accept the world as it was.

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I see someone has picked up the Dead Poets thing after all!
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