Reflection on Pygmalion

Among the movies that I have watched with my course mates during Drama class, the most interesting movie is Pygmalion. It is another movie without colour but black and white published in the year 1913. The playwright is George Bernard Shaw.
In my opinion, this movie is interesting because it shows a process of how a flower girl, Eliza who is from a lower class status, lack of manners and lack of proficiency in her English language has changed to become a person of higher social class, more refine in her manners and can speak well in English. These can happen is due to her heart’s desire of becoming a more refine person so that she can work in a flower shop.
From the movie, I can see that Eliza is determined to fulfill her dreams of becoming a duchess. Actually, it is a bet between Professor Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering to turn a flower girl into a duchess. Eliza heard about their bet and was interested about changing her present self into a more refined and well mannered person. Although she does not have much money, she is willing to pay for her lessons from Professor Higgins to learn proper phonetics of English.
During the process of learning, Eliza tries her best to learn the correct phonetics of English taught by Higgins. She is determined to learn until midnight, putting things into her mouth to get the right pronunciation and even dreams about the things she learned. She does not give up and finally she succeeds to become a refine and behaves as a higher class social person.
Other than that, there is also developed relationship between Eliza and Higgins. Higgins has been a very close friend and guide to Eliza. He has showed a good example of a linguistic mentor by being able to transform Eliza from a lack of proficiency in English pronunciation into a refine person. He has the determination and perseverance. He gives Eliza security during her learning process and eventually falls in love with Eliza. It is also part of a love story that makes the movie interesting.