My fair lady movie

My fair lady is a musical film from 1964 which could be enjoyable for many, but I didn't enjoy it much. I thought of it that it may be more likely a girl's type movie.

The story line is relatively simple. Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins encounters a colleague from India, Colonel Pickering who has come to see him, on a street outside a major theater. He criticizes a flower girl's speech, remarking offhandedly that in six months he could her off as a lady or a shop girl, which requires better English, that it is her accent which keeps her in lower class poverty. The girl comes the next day, to his home where Higgins is entertaining his new guest, and offers to pay for training.

Higgins is a social monster and frightens the girl with his rough talk, but he agrees to take her on, and sends her to his housekeeper to be given a bath and have her clothes burned and replaced which act turns out to precipitate a major battle. At one point, her father, Alfred Doolittle, demands money to overlook the Professor's theft of his daughter, Eliza, meaning the income she had provided him; he uses the money to get married.

The training proves difficult and arduous; Higgins' mother is amused and frightened by the experiment, set off by Pickering's wagering Higgins could not train the girl. But he does; Eliza proves to be bright, touchy, emotional and altogether more interesting than Higgins had expected. She succeeds, masters an upper-class accent; and then in rapid succession, she is presented at a party to social highbrows where her accent is perfect but the content of her speech is Cockney matters, which they take for a fashionable new court slang, and then she upsets the Ascot Race Meeting crying to the horse she has bet on, "Move yer bloomin' arse!", but charms Freddie who becomes her shy suitor. At last the Professor presents her at a royal ball where she charms everyone concerned, avoids any major faux pas, and convinces a bogus Hungarian phonetics she must be royal herself.

So the experiment has succeeded; Higgins has won his bet. Then he discovers, as a distraught Eliza confronts him the next day, that he has done what he had set out to do he has created a person capable of self-assertion in the world, but not in the flawed British Empire's stratified and totalitarian society. She leaves him, to marry Freddy; and he discovers he has fallen in love with her. She recognizes that Freddy is unworthy of her and, despite the lack of promises and guarantees from Higgins, returns to do battle with him for the rest of their lives.