This movie takes into account the theme of social status, Eliza is presented as low class people while Mr. Higgins and Mr. Pickering is high class people. In this story they accidentally meet at a road. While Eliza is trying to sell followers to Colonel Pickering, Higgins writes down everything she said. Both Higgins and Pickering are experts in phonetic. The story develops further as Pickering challenges Higgins to transform the flower into “a duchess”, able to speak the accent of the high class community. Then, the two of them are obsessed with their experiment to teach Eliza to speak. They made two trials to examine whether they are success in their work to change Eliza’s accent. The first trial fails as Eliza accidentally talk in her low class accent; however the second trial is a big success to them. Eliza can speak fluently in the intended accent.This plot of this movie is in chronological order so it is easier for me to understand its story line. The theme of social status is interesting to me since it is the first time for me to hear different English accent. In my opinion, the accent of the low class is hard to understand compared to the accent to high class people that talks in Standard English. Personally, I do not really like phonetic which I find quite difficult to master. However, this movie is worth to see since it represents the real life situation in some part of England where the accent that differentiate people of different status. It is so unlucky to those who are born in low class society because once they start to speak everybody knows where they come from. Similar situation also happens in Malaysia where everyone can guess where I come from my accent but I am proud of it. I am also very grateful since in Malaysia because we do not have accent that differentiate people of different social class.
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I agree with shazrina about her review on the movie Pygmalion. It is true that some part of England differentiate people of different status from the accent. From look at the way someone talks, they could know whether this person is from lower class or upper class and also from which place they come from. I think this has its pro and cons. From the positive side, there is various kind of accent we can learn. But the negative side is the people’s view and impression on the person whom have accent. Like I Shazrina said and what mentioned earlier, it gives low impression on people who have accent because most of them comes from lower class status, not the people from the big city and comes from upper class status. Eventually, they will be neglected in everything such as to get job or being respected by others.
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