Great movies remain themselves over the generations; they retain a serene champion of their accept identity. Lesser movies are captives of their clock time. They get dated and leave out their original focus and power. ``The Graduate is a lesser movie. It comes out of a specific time in the late 1960s when parents stood for unaired middle-class values, and ``the kids were joyous rebels at the cutting edge of the sexual and political revolutions. gum benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffmilitary personnel), the clueless hero of ``The Graduate, was swept in on that wave of feeling, even though it is clear immediately that he was utterly unaware of his generation and existed outside time and space (he seems most at home at the stool of a swimming pool).
``The Graduate, released in 1967, contains no flower children, no hippies, no dope, no rock music, no political manifestos and no danger. It is a movie about a tiresome jade and his well-meaning parents. The only character in the movie who is alive--who stomach see through situations, understand motives, and dare to seek her own happiness--is Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft). Seen today, ``The Graduate is a movie about a young man of limited interest, who gets a chance to sleep with the ranking sis in his neighborhood, and throws it away in order to marry her dorky daughter.
Consider, for a moment, the character of Elaine (Katharine Ross), Mrs. Robinsons daughter. She has no dialogue of any depth. She has an alarming hoodooism for false eyelashes.
She agrees to marry a tall, blond jock (Brian Avery) by and large because her parents will be furious with her if she doesnt. She is so witless that she misunderstands everything Benjamin says to her. When she discovers Benjamin has slept with her mother, she is horrified, but before they have ever...
Good critique, very opinionated. thither are those out there who may express variant opinions, What are the good aspects of the movie? Include a some of those as well so the critique isnt too 1 sided.
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