Product: Educating Rita (UK) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ]
Rating: 5.0
Still my favorite movie ever
This has been my favorite movie since the first time I watched it, and I've never stopped loving it. I think I identified with Rita/Susan way back in 1984 when I saw it, as I was a newly married working class girl trying to get my education one class at a time. Rita's journey fascinated me, and I never get to the end of the movie without tearing up at the transformations of both Rita and Frank. It's more than 20 years later, I have my education, and I now know that most of the reading material I devoured in the first 20 years of my life wasn't literature, but I've never forgotten the feelings portrayed so beautifully by this movie, those feelings of being between two worlds-the one I started with and the one I was working toward, as Rita puts it, trying to discover myselfI think this movie also portrays another life lesson, that you can have all the knowledge of an "educated" person, and still not have that be enough to fill the emptiness in your life, as Rita's tragic roommate shows us. Rita's education is in far more than some works of literature, and that is the best thing about this funny, sweet, and heart-rending film.