An Education is the story of growing up in the early 1960s, a simpler time before drugs, cell phones and the Beatles.  It portrays the conflicts of a young girl confronted with choices that she is not equipped to make and how an education, both scholarly and in the rudiments of life, changes her and her family’s lives.  I found the sound track very revealing.  The characters were totally believable and totally in context with their time.  Pre-woman’s movement, the sexism of the times is accurately portrayed.  The songs in the background were pre-British Invasion, sort of mindless late ’50s, early ’60s pop tunes that were innocent and mindless.  Along with this was the conversations of the school girls, again innocent and mindless high school talk.  While the teachers wanted Jenny to go on to read English at Oxford, the harsh realities of life - her father telling her she needed to find a man with “deep pockets” - forshadowed her finding a much older man.  While the forshadowing for my jaded self had me waiting for something darker, more sinister, the realities were refreshing.  This is a very enjoyable movie and highly recommended.