She’ll be released with a buddy
One could read Jeanette's transformation, coming at the tail end of the '50s, as a violent, symbolic rejection of the conformity, patriarchy and other stifling social attitudes that held sway during that decade. But Mulligan's performance is too specific and too wrenching to be reduced to a mere generational statement. This is her most fully formed role since her performance in another early '60s piece, the British coming of age drama "An Education," and in some ways it feels like.
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