Oleanna is a movie about a young college girl named Carol confronting her older male professor named John about understanding his class and his book that he wrote. Carol is failing the class, she goes to his office to try and get her grade improved but while they talk they are continually interrupted as the talk throughout the movie.
In the first act we see the two characters in the professor office. She comes in and starts saying that she does not understand many things in his class and in his book and says that is the reason for her struggles in the class. In the begining the professor never really seems to understand the problem she has probably due to the fact that he keeps getting phone calls about his house that him and his wife our purchasing. They are purchasing the house because John is receiving tenure. The whole first act Carol also interrupts John pretty much non sto
This movie could be about many different things. A main theme for this movie could be about how men and woman see the same situation in very different ways. As a male viewer your would probably think that John was not guilty of a thing and that he truly tried to help Carol. While viewing the movie I was surprised that he did not beat her up earlier. In no way what happened in the first act constitute as rape all he did was try to calm her down. Carol is a monstrous creature who masks her own faults by manufacturing this false accusation to get what she wants and to ruin this professors life.
The main theme from this movie is interpretation. It is Carol’s version versus John’s version of what happened. It is some peoples interpretation of what the law actually says than rather of what actually happened. Throughout the entire movie we see this her interpretation of education and mean
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