Kathleen, once the most conservative women's college and an art history teacher with new ideas, came to Wesleyan Women's College to help Song Meiling lay the foundation for self-cultivation. She dreams of teaching in an aristocratic school, because these students will become future leaders. If she can change these students, her ideal may come true. In 1950s, the rise of American professional women in the war did not change the overall liberation of women. Women still go home, busy taking care of their husbands and educating their children. This situation is reflected in Wesleyan College, which still maintains all the teaching methods that keep the purpose of the school-to cultivate model wives for upper-class men. Catherine, who came to Massachusetts from California, witnessed the feminist revolution in Hollywood. She agrees with the new art and new thinking that have not been recognized, and hopes to teach them to her students. However, these students are all kinds, including wives who are extremely conservative and fail to maintain tradition, problem girls who specialize in hooking up with married women, busy with love, and confused about the future. Not all students agree with Katherine, who is in trouble, and conservative schools don't approve of her feminist education, thinking that she can't teach students well. In this way, an extreme feminist sermon mixed with love bubbles is fully launched. Catherine was recognized by students as the happy ending of the film, but Wesley paid a heavy price for it.

Speaking of Wesley, it can actually be divided into two stages with the fifties as the boundary. When Song Meiling was in school, a large number of upstart daughters in the United States wanted the title of old Europe, so Wesley undertook the task of educating upstart daughters, educating them into elegant aristocratic ladies, learning how to manage a large family, manage many domestic servants, hold social activities and teach each other. After 1950s, Wesley became the notorious base camp of extreme feminism. I once met a graduate of that era, an extreme feminist who preached that "sex doesn't need men." She couldn't wait to treat men as filth and women as first. No wonder Wesley now enrolls 100 students every year, but sends admission notices to 200 applicants. White girls don't want to go, so they recruit a lot of Korean girls. Mona Lisa's Smile must reflect the transitional period. When the wife's market is shrinking, these elite women can't get the status they want through their husbands, so they embark on the road of pursuing status. Under the aggressive struggle, the self-righteous "elite feelings" of Wesley women will never change. Now the feminist movement has turned to admit gender differences, seek mutual understanding and complementarity in line with its own natural advantages, and maximize social benefits. Mona Lisa still celebrates Wesley's narcissistic feminism. I really don't know if these filmmakers really don't know, or pretend they don't know where feminism has gone. The United States once paid a painful price for extreme feminism. Women who are lured by tobacco companies to smoke in exchange for "freedom" have ruined their health, and the high divorce rate has created a large number of single-parent children. These children whose personalities have been hurt have also killed a healthy future. I really have nothing to say except that these filmmakers are ignorant and backward. Director Newell is at least an easy leader. Why go to Wesley's feminist muddy water?

The world knows that Mona Lisa has the most beautiful smile, but it doesn't know the pain of losing her son. As a bystander, I am certainly very happy to see Catherine educating students and women to become future leaders instead of leading wives. It is certainly very happy to watch the facebook villain Betty defend his wife's tradition and pay the price for this tradition abandoned by her husband. Finally, she divorced and accepted Catherine's ideas. But that's the problem. Nora won't find happiness after she leaves. From the movie point of view, the realization of the protagonist's ideal is naturally something to cheer about, but Betty may not be able to live happily after divorce. Or did Catherine wholeheartedly support Joan to go to law school? Feminism means that women have the right to control their own destiny, so it is free to go home and be a wife. It doesn't have to compete with men. This smacks of modern feminism. Throughout the movie, many clever jokes and slogan lines were played, and one of them was true. Catherine's lover said to her, "You think you came to Wesley to help these girls find their way, but I think you helped these girls find their way." The implication is that the success of this road to women's rights depends on the effect.

Supposedly, this movie is really made like this.