Nowadays, movie has been a mainstream of art. In fact, movie is created not only to amuse people but also to expose the problems of a complicated real life. For over many years, movie has succeeded illustrating human’s problems on many aspects of life in such genres as romance, thriller, comedy, action, etc. I myself am interested in romance and comedy. One of my favorite movies is “Nanny Diaries”, a romance-comedy movie.

Nanny Diaries tells about Annie Braddock (Scarlett Johansson), a fresh graduate of a working-class neighborhood who is having a bit of an identity crisis. Her hardworking mother is insisting on her contribution to earning money. But she has more interest in anthropology. She tries to follow her mother’s wish but the fate determines her to get a job as a nanny because of an accidental event. She works for a Manhattan couple known only as Mr. and Mrs. X (Laura Linney and Paul Giamatti). She has to look after their son named Grayer(Nicholas Reese Art) , the spoiled, emotionally retarded, but redeemable child. Annie gets many problems when she works there because she has to rescue herself from a dysfunctional messy family. An authoritarian mother, a dishonest husband, a child who is lack of affection have made her life so miserable.

In the middle of her messy life, she meets a charming man named Hayden (Chris Evans), a student of Harvard University. Hayden succeeds to relieve a bit of her problems for a while by giving her a romance. However, because of her authoritarian employer, Mrs.X, her relationship with Hayden is broken. It makes her have more complicated life.
The climax happens when Mr. X tries to flirt her and that embarrassing event is discovered by Mrs. X. As a result, she gets fired and has to realize that all what she has done during working there has been recorded by Nanny Cam candidly on a teddy bear.

Although she is very desperate with all the problems, she realizes that she has got a valuable lesson about life. She quickly learns that money might indeed enable a person to buy a luxurious house in Nantucket but it certainly can’t buy an honest husband or an affection of a son. She tries to deliver that lesson to Mrs. X through Nanny Cam in order that Mrs.X will realize that affection and honesty are more precious than money.

The end of this movie is unpredictable. Finally, the stubborn Mrs. X realizes that giving affection to her son is more important than spending whole time to worry about her disloyal husband. She is so thankful to Annie and she feels sorry for every mistake she has made. Annie is so happy to hear that because she is not only successfully fixing her relationship with Hayden but also finding her self-identity as an anthropologist after ensuring her mother about it.

This movie is very inspiring and interesting because it is not only giving some lessons to go through the life but also amusing amidst the absurdity and hypocrisy of Manhattan’s upper-crust. Moreover, I learn about how to find self-identity without worrying about others wishes. My future is mine. It is about responsibility that I take happily without worry. Personally, I really judge that “Nanny Diaries” is a great movie that is worth watching since it can bring us to watch over the problems of a life.
(Credit and thanks to Annisa Nadya, HI-2)

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