Guilt?
About having betrayed Miss Brodie, whom she possibly still loves?
About not protecting Mary properly after having bullied her?
About her affair with Mr Lloyd?
God is subtle, but He is not malicious. (Albert Einstein)
I don't think guilt, but simply pain. Miss Brodie never taught them about pain and loss. She never spoke of past mistakes and atrocities. It was always about beauty and perfection. Imagine living a life of nothing but pure happiness and then having to face devastation.
I think that's the end lesson for them all.
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That is a good answer. I myself long for beauty and perfection, but have had to deal with an excess load of pain, loss and much negative stuff.
God is subtle, but He is not malicious. (Albert Einstein)
Thank you, very much!
I think we all go through it to an extent. Miss Brodie took it to an extreme level. Life is simply a balance of good and bad. The good helps us get through the bad.
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Yes, guilt and conscience but she did what she felt she had to do, for the best.
It wasn't, poor child, but she then faced a life of terrible guilt and her assassination of Miss Brodie would never leave her.
She absolutely did the right thing. Would you really want a woman teaching your 17 year old daughter to encourage her to have an affair with a teacher 25 years older than her? Or to encourage her to rush of to a war zone without rally getting the facts of what's going on? In today's society, she would romanticize about the ancient history of the Muslim world and use that as justification to encourage her girls to join ISIS.
shareshe is not in any way teary eyed at the end
she steadfastly sticks to her mission of STOPPING this maniac woman
http://www.kindleflippages.com/ablog/
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After graduation, she is crying when she leaves the school. I think she's crying over the loss of her innocence. She was betrayed by the teacher she idolized and violated by a male teacher. And one of her close friends lost her life. It was a traumatic experience.
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No, she leaves as a sadder but wiser person PROUD of what she did - so no tears
she is ready for whatever life may throw at her and maybe the ONE thing Brodie got right is she MAY make an amazing spy.
and "violated by a male teacher"? like what planet do you reside on?
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You really need to watch the movie again. She IS crying as she walks away from the school.
I have no idea what is said in the book or shown in the play. But this is imdb, so we're talking about the 1969 movie. Here's the wikipedia plot synopsis of the movie since I can't find the movie online any more to get a screengrab:
As Sandy leaves the school for the last time, her face streaked with angry and bitter tears, Miss Brodie (in voiceover) states her motto: "Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crème de la crème. Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life."share
I have no idea what is said in the book or shown in the play. But this is imdb, so we're talking about the 1969 movie. Here's the wikipedia plot synopsis of the movie since I can't find the movie online any more to get a screengrab:
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Lady, WTF would you be seeking INTELLIGENT comment on a NON Hollywood movie if you whole belief system is rooted in american institutions?
no point in talking further with you - Bye Bye
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Why would you come onto a website called "Internet Movie DataBase" to discuss a book or a play? The rest of your comment makes no sense. I am talking about the 1969 movie filmed in Scotland, starring Maggie Smith. In that movie the character Sandy absolutely is crying when she leaves the school.
That is a fact. It cannot be disputed.
We can dispute WHY she's crying all day long. But there's no point in arguing that she was not crying because she was.
I would like to second that. I just recently saw the movie. When I initially watched the movie, I didn't catch the fact that she was crying, but then I too saw the Wikipedia reference to her crying and I went back and watched the scene again. And yes, she absolutely IS crying. It's not the most obvious thing in the world, but there are definitely tears streaking down her cheeks.
I think it means that, after everything that happened, she still felt loyalty to Jean Brodie. The narration says "give me a girl of impressionable age and she is mine for life". So in spite of being a horrible influence on her girls, Jean Brodie still made Sandy who she was. By encouraging her and praising her intelligence, this prompted Sandy to become the type of girl who sees everything - including what Jean really is.
Note that after going to Miss Mackay, Sandy essentially never had to see Jean again at all. But she waits in the classroom, because she knows Jean will go there eventually. On a deep level, she wants to see that the woman is alright. Even when she's screaming and shouting at her, Sandy breaks off and asks what she will do next. She's well aware how much teaching means to Jean and she still feels some affection for the woman. The final shot shows the realisation hitting her - although she did something heroic like Miss Brodie suggested, real life actions have consequences. What Sandy did might be considered heroic in the sense that she protected future generations from Jean's influence - but she's still ruined Jean's life and taken away the only joy she has left.
I'm gonna die of long hair!
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So in spite of being a horrible influence on her girls, Jean Brodie still made Sandy who she was.
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From the very start it was Sandy who SAW Brodie was a complete phony espec re sex, ie she had worked out she was frigid and got her "wild oats" by doing a PROXY of what her life might have been BUT in doing so she was totally dangerous.
Watch again, it was Sandy's MOTHER [as it should be] that made her such an upstanding person at a young age with the COURAGE to stop Brodie alas too late to save Mary.
As artist said to Sandy there are heaps of Brodies about but they do NOT teach at a girls school where they can prey on young minds.
And that worked in reverse too as Brodie KNEW Sandy was on to her from that first strut on tour of Edinburgh [remember Brodie reply?]
But even better was Greer herself in 1970 and she used a book, The Female Eunuch to give us the American Beauty, now 45 years old.
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Sandy is crying in the final scene.
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She is crying because it is EXCRUCIATING to be the smart, noble person in that situation.
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