“The Monalisa Smile” 1. Summary: The movie was about the American professor who went to Europe to practice her career as an art history professor. She thought that her students would learn many things from her but it was unexpected that her students were so advance and so independent with themselves. Their independence was so dominance in their place. It was like that they no longer need professors to teach them. During the first days of the school year, they already read the book, and already knew the syllabus and the lessons. It became an issue to Ms Watson, the professor, and became a challenge to her. She challenged the school and her students as well through changing the syllabus. And they were all shocked because all of the sudden the lesson was not familiar. All of her students questioned her even the head of the school questioned her. Some of her students were popular in their place and they can command whatever they wanted. One of what was not clear to Ms Watson was that at early age even not yet finished on their studies get married and worst was get arrange marriage. It was not clear to her that the role of women in the place was when they get married, they get married and they can no longer do anything but to be a good wife to their husbands. This was also became a challenge to her so when she found someone who wanted to pursue law in Yale, she helped this student, but it was not easy because some students believe that she was ruining their tradition and crashing their culture. So Ms Watson pursue her helping and pursue making new beliefs that women are not born just to get married in due time and just be a good wife. Women needed to speak for their own and they should know that they also have their own rights not dependent to what tradition say or what family tell. At the end of the story of the movie, the students learned what she fought for. She