Review of Educating Rita (1983) by Luis G — 14 Jul 2012

Educating Rita is a great character study film that involves a typical role reversal and its a simple but charming sensation.

Its an inspiration film that teaches anyone could become anything through Julie waters performance and her character determination to become educated. I think what really pulls this together is the Michael Caine and Julie Walters tete a tete dialogue in Michael's office. I could have quite easily enjoyed the entire film set in this scenario.

Everything else about this film is great and I think that the acting is really outstanding, the major thing is that its relatable to anyone. Even if you couldn't think of anything worse than reading about chekov or watching Macbeth! It is also a nice sentiment to a teacher student relationship that features two characters with their own problems and yet solve their problems through each others help.

What I think is the main problem is that there doesn't need to be the extra amount of pointless student characters and other unnecessary teacher characters. There were a few too many characters that didn't anything to the plot and only served to make this seem less like a play.

Though a minor point, I think this film is great!