This movie felt like too naked a depiction of an older man's desire for/seduction of/sexual fantasy concerning a sexual relationship with an underage girl, and as such felt creepy. The fact that the seducing older man is depicted as unscrupulous and creepy as the movie goes on does not make the movie any more comfortable to watch. Moment by moment, it was satisfying to watch, and Carey Mulligan as the seduced is amazing, but increasing creepiness led me to stop watching. Yet works of art can be about pedophilia and still be satisfying works of art: Nabokov's Lolita and Kubrick's movie version of same; or Love Invents Us, the novel by Amy Bloom. Darn. An Education might have had a moral center, but up to the point I watched, it didn't.
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