What does it mean to be “engaged” or to be a “leader”? Yes, these questions can simply be answered with a textbook definition of the two words. To be engaged is to be involved and to be a leader is to take command, but that doesn’t illustrate what they mean in real life circumstances. The films The Painted Veil and The Official Story do just that. The female protagonists in the two films, Kitty Fane and Alicia Ibáñez, are both excellent examples of what it means to become a leader and to be engaged. In The Painted Veil, Kitty originally appears to be nothing more than an unfaithful, shallow, self-centered woman. Her only cares were for her own happiness and personal gain. Because of this, Kitty is forced, by her husband Walter, to travel
