Hey there! I just watched a movie in English with English subtitles, and I thought, why not write about it in English? Practice for me and for you too, I promise, it won't be that complicated, I don't use fancy words.

Watched movie: Admission (Vizsga két személyre) 4/5

Ok, so the story goes this way according to IMDB: A Princeton admissions officer, Portia (Tina Fey) who is up for a major promotion takes a professional risk after she meets a college-bound alternative school kid who just might be the son she gave up years ago in a secret adoption. And there is a guy who makes her think that, he is the teacher of that boy, John (Paul Rudd). He knew a girl who was a girlfriend of Portia, when she had her baby during college.

If you don't get it, it's not important, I won't go into the details, because it is not a story about that investigation. This is about how students are evaluated in the US for getting into college. A lot of tests, exctracurricular activities, essays and an interview are taken into account, a lot of stuff compared to how we just take a big test in Hungary and get our points, that define the next 3 or more years for us.

So the story is about mainly Portia's work, but with the other characters we get to learn about parenting. How do we feel about our parents, how they raised us, what kind of life did we get from them, and based on that how are we going to do it by ourselves with our own child. The psychological books say that if you really determine that you won't do things like your parents did, you are going to do that way, but without noticing. Because that's what you know. But maybe that's stupid. I believe if we learn something, and we try and remind ourselves not to forget the important things, then we can go on a different way.

Ok, now you probably think that this movie is not even a comedy, if I'm writing about it this way, but it is a comedy, with some serious parts, but it stays light. I love Tina Fey, I just like her characters, the way she is joking, I just get that. And the other actors are also good, the kids who get some screen time are funny too, Paul Rudd is fine, he is usually, and Portia's mother is played by Lily Tomlin, she is great as the independent mother who is living for feminisim, kind of.

There is a funny segment coming back again and again. Portia was living together with an English professor for a long time, but he left her in kind of the beginning of the movie, but it did not play out dramatically, Michael Sheen is playing the boyfriend, who's leaving her because he got pregnant another woman, but the funny thing is that, the woman is making him leave her as she was his boss or something like that. And every time Portia and the guy meet, Portia is kind of crying or upset about something totally else than the breakup, but the guy thinks she didn't get over him yet. That is just making a good line throughout the movie.

And there is a cow-birth scene too, which made me laugh, the way Tina was kind of helping the mother cow to relax.

I gave it a 4/5 because it was kind of long and the ending was not that uplifting, just normal, but still it is good, you should watch it.

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