An Education is a wonderfully written story about becoming someone new, falling in love, and being hurt. Carey Mulligan plays Jenny, a girl of only 16 who happens to meet an older suave man who takes an interest in her, played by Peter Sarsgaard. Jenny becomes swept off her feet by his charm and the things they go and do. But her naivety gets the best of her in the end. One scene in particular i thought was so perfectly subtle you probably wouldn't notice it unless someone pointed it out to you. It shows just how young and wonderfully gullible this girl Jenny is. In this scene Jenny's father is going on a rampage about money and education, and begins shouting that money doesn't grow on trees, and they don't have a tree in the yard for this and for that, and at one point Jenny turns her head to look out the window and check. Its a perfectly innocent subtle split second, but i think it speaks volumes about the character Carey Mulligan plays. This movie is immaculately written by Nick Hornsby (author of about a boy, high fidelity, a long way down). This movie is most likely destined to be a classic.
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