The Movie My Fair Lady Review

My Fair Lady, Directed by George Cukor, is based on the play written in 1912 play
'Pygmailon' by George Bernard Shawin

 

Summary of the movie

This movie is about the common flower-selling girl who tries to be an upper-class citizen; Eliza, the flower-selling girl, asks the help to the phonetic professor, Higgins, to fix how she behaves and speaks. Very much interested in whether he can change her life or not, Higgins and his accompany, Pickering, teach Eliza how upper-class citizens behave and speak. And the story begins from there.

 

Eliza is full of hope that someday she will have warm-clothes and good foods.



Even though, right now, old wagon and fake vegetable trophy are the only things she has, she hopes that she will have warm house and hot chocolate.

 

Higgins is a very inquisitive and passionate person, yet, sometimes, he could be a very selfish man because he is so focused on what he does.





Eliza practices all day to become a upper-class lady.



Eliza cursing Higgins for torturing her with too much work.

‘H’ is too hard to say for her.

Eliza alos practices all night to become a upper-class lady.



           After long try of saying the phrase, ‘The rain in the Spain stays mainly in the plain’, Eliza finally succeeds saying properly.



They're happy that finally Eliza did it.

 

Full of happiness due to her success,

Eliza can’t sleep that she can someday dance like an upper-class citizen.

“I could’ve danced all night; I could’ve danced all night and still have begged for more.”

- from the moive

 

     And, Eliza finalizes her success of completely changing her behaviors by going to the Royal party and no one at the party finds out that she is just a flower-selling girl.

Dance between common flower-selling girl and prince.

     However, after the success, she realizes that she now belongs to nowhere. She doesn’t truly belong to the upper-class and can’t even belong to the class where she used to belong, anymore, for she had changed a lot since she decided to change her behaviors. However, Higgins is very oblivious about her.

Mad at Higgins’ oblivious, Eliza leaves Higgins.

     Initially Higgins thought that it would not matter whether Eliza goes out or not, but soon realizes that he has grown a custom of her face.

Last scene
After knowing that Higgins truly values their friendship, Eliza comes back to the Higgins’ House.

     Music with quite simple, poetic, and humorous lyrics is quite noticeable in the movie. Adorable story between Eliza and Freddie also makes this movie worth watching. However, to me, these are not the reason that makes this movie truly worth watching.

Everyone has a dream. One may not realize that one has dream or not, but as long as one is alive, one has a dream. And, this movie let one know that hope and passion is very important to achieve one’s dream.

     I have a dream, too, since I am alive. Dream that someday with my knowledge I save many people and share meaningful things: thoughts, love, and passion. To tell the truth, keeping the dream is as much challenging as achieving it. Thus, this movie had profound effect on me.  Full of hope and passion, this movie, every time I see, keeps me awake so I cannot almost sleep at night. It wakes me up and says ‘You can do it too! You can achieve your dream too. Just have a heart that is beating furiously, because it will guide you.’ Then I spend the whole night, dreaming about the dream.