Line #7 YMMV/AnEducation


1	* AwardSnub: The film received three UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nominations and went home empty-handed. Lone Scherfig wasn't nominated for Best Director.
2	* BetterOnDVD: A lot of fans like to watch the two {{deleted scene}}s mentioned under the FanPreferredCutContent. Given that they're near the end of the film it's easy to watch them afterwards without breaking up the story too much.
3	* FanPreferredCouple: Fans like to pair Jenny with Danny, especially since [[spoiler: David is married]].
4	* FanPreferredCutContent: There are two {{deleted scene}}s where [[spoiler:Jenny meets David's wife, confronts David and later rejects him when he finds her again at Oxford]] that most would agree shouldn't have been cut.
5	* HarsherInHindsight:
6	-->'''Danny:''' [''about David''] I'd be careful if I were you, Jenny. You don't know who you're dealing with.
7	* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler:David runs out on Jenny after she discovers he's married, instead of helping her face her parents and telling them the truth of his deceit. To make matters worse, Jenny is unable to return to her school (and therefore cannot get into Oxford), and has basically lost almost everything because of David--or rather, because of herself. And then it emerges she's just the latest in a long line of affairs, where he's deceived various girls with promises of marriage and even gotten at least one of them ''pregnant,'' wrecking their lives and emotionally destroying his wife in the process.]]
8	* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Many critics, moviegoers and websites were confused whether or not Jenny's last name is Mellor or Millar or Meller. When Mulligan won the BAFTA for Best Actress, the last name was spelled as the conventional "Miller," even though it is canonically "Mellor."
9	* ValuesDissonance:
10	** A lot of casual anti-Semitism.
11	** David practices blockbusting, moving black families into apartments to get nearby old ladies to move out, hence allowing him to buy the apartments cheap.
12	** Marriage at 17 being seen as normal and desirable. Not as stark as the other examples, but the idea of girls marrying right out of high school ''has'' become a lot less common in the ensuing decades. It is part of the reason that what happened to Jenny doesn't happen as much anymore; today, parents like hers would put a quick stop to any notions an intelligent, academic girl like Jenny had of choosing marriage over going to university. Back then, though, more women did choose early marriage over higher education so it was seen as a viable option, [[spoiler: especially to a man like David who is already rich and "established."]]
13	*** Additionally, Jenny's friends, classmates and even parents are rather blasé about an adult man's interest her, and the teacher who cautions her against the relationship is seen as a wet blanket. In modern times, when young people have much more frequent warnings and education about predatory behavior, as well as young marriage no longer being seen as commonplace or desirable, such a relationship would be viewed with much more hostility and suspicion.
14	** The whole notion of teenage sexual activity being grounds for expulsion [[spoiler: or refusal of re-admission]] from school. Nowadays, not only has teenage sexual experimentation become the norm, but even those who are not a fan of it would generally agree that that part of a student's life is not the school's business.
15	*** On the flip side, to this day, religious private schools can and have suspended or even expelled students (or staff) upon discovering that they are participating in sexual activity forbidden by the school rules.
16	* TheWoobie:
17	** [[spoiler: Jenny pays for loving and putting her trust in David by losing her place at school, her chance to go to Oxford and her entire future, along with being subjected to the scorn of not a few people. Thankfully she manages to resume her studies and get her life back on course, but it's hard to watch all the confidence and hope knocked out of her.]]
18	** [[spoiler:In a deleted scene we have Sarah Goldman, David's long-suffering wife. She's so thoroughly resigned to her husband having affairs, getting girls pregnant or asking them to marry him, and then having them turn up at her door when he dumps them or the truth comes out, that she's not even really shocked when it's Jenny's turn. The only thing that really upsets her is that Jenny is so young; 'you're a ''child.' '' And she can't leave David because she's a housewife in the Sixties, and they have two very young sons whom he apparently does love (the latter of whom was born ''while David was in the middle of his affair with Jenny'') and whom he'd likely get custody of if they did separate.]]
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Context YMMV / AnEducation