Educating Rita

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been realising for ages that I was y'know slightly out of step.'' Rita feels constricted by her husband Denny and the brand of humour that signifies her class attitudes and beliefs systems. There is a great gap between Rita's `working class' vocabulary and Frank's `educated class' vocabulary. This is seen both in the spoken and written word (give quote). It is especially highlighted when Rita discusses the place or swearing and vulgarity within the classes.Language is used to show how different the two worlds are, how far Rita must go in her transition to arrive in her new world. It is evident from the moment that Frank and Rita meet that their perceptions of belonging are vastly different. Rita's entrance, "I'm comin' in, aren't I? It's that stupid bleedin' handle on the door. You wanna get it fixed!" shocks both Frank and the audience in her apparent ignorance of social conventions surrounding admission to a university lecturer's office. Her use of slang and contractions of ...

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in the story. It is through the central character's eyes that we see the flash forward scenes. These are introduced through freeze frames, and add to Josie's narration of events throughout the film.

The freeze frames that pre-empt the flash forward scenes are a way of getting inside the character's head. Events are exaggerated and dramatised through the colourful imagination of Josie Alibrandi.

``I think the most important thing about it is that it is so unpatronizing to the people it's aimed at. I really wanted to capture the heart and spirit so that every teenager who watches it can own it''.

Voice-over: Josie

Josie provides a voice over for the entirety of the film. ...

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