MOVIE REVIEW The Graduate (1967)
These are scenes from the movie The Graduate, which was produced in 1967 but showed many shocking scenes. A graduate of the IVY League, Ben. However, he wanders with a loss of identity (who struggles alone without telling anyone), and he has his longtime girlfriend Elaine, but he doesn't tell her what he's up to. However, Elaine's mother, Mrs. The story of the film begins when Robinson seduces his daughter's friend, Ben, and at this time an extremely lonely and psychologically wandering Ben takes it without thinking.
Elaine returns to a school far away in shock that her mother brought her boyfriend and affair, and Ben sets out to find her. The Alfa Romeo, driven by Ben, that can be seen throughout the film, has been quite popular since then.
In the first scene of the film, Ben (Hoffman) gets on a plane and disembarks at Los Angeles airport, then stands on a moving walk and moves around. This is where Simon & Garfunkel's The Sound of Silence plays in the background. According to an interview that Paul Simon, who made the song, had done in the past, does this song mean that "modern people sing without love, talk and listen without meaning, but rather have a conversation with darkness and get comfort ?"? It fits very well with the overall mood of the movie.
Ben drives a highway through the woods in search of Elaine - Another Simon and Garfunkel masterpiece, "Scarborough Fair", plays from this scene . Anyone who knows this song will remember it. In fact, in this movie, which was poor in content, the representative songs of these duets came out so much that it felt like they were all introduced. In fact, this song is a folk song from Yorkshire, and the lyrics of this song say that a man has given the woman of the past a task that is absolutely impossible for a human to do, and if she completes this task, she will accept her again (subtly substitute I feel satisfied). Contrary to the lyrics, in the part of this song, there is a scene where Ben is desperately looking for Elaine, right? Quite an irony. The old technique of continuously shooting with one camera (single camera shot?) is also awkward, but the effect seems to be maximized in this scene.
The last scene also remains in the memory of many people. Elaine and Ben run away from their parents' wedding to another man - After leaving their family and guests at the wedding, the two manage to catch the departing bus and hurriedly escape from there, but they have no plans for the future. can be read from the faces of these two people. Was it perhaps similar to American society in the late 60s?
Below is a scene where Ben hears the news that Elaine is getting married and drives his car to the First Presbyterian Church. If it was a movie these days, it would have been edited in length, and it would be meaningless by today's standards. However, these scenes are also one aspect of how well the old movies (unlike the movies of today) handled the given two hours well. These days, it is common to see if the given two hours are not enough or to test the intelligence of the audience, to clutter the story line by mixing the past, present, and future, or to appear flashy with rapid-fire lines, but in the end it is a pun in the end. I'm thinking of making a movie.
Finally - this movie contains very vulgar contents, both by the standards of the time and by today's standards, and it is meaningful in that it reflects the era in which the foundations of the present United States were newly created at that time. Not a very good foundation was built. Contrary to the (low) quality of the content, many of Simon and Garfunkel's gems were also featured in this film, making it a film that should have been seen at least once. It should also be noted that S&G songs at the time were also called Satanic songs.
This film brought a lot of parody. Among them, the scene I saw in the movie Wayne's World 2 (1993) makes me laugh even now when I think about it, so take a look. This is a parody of the video above. Big star Charlton Heston makes a cameo.
Mrs. Remember the actor who played Robinson? In the 1984 film 84 Charing Cross Road that I introduced earlier, Ms. This is Anne Bancroft. After watching The Graduate, it was very burdensome to deal with this actress on the screen, but I was glad that 84 Charing Cross Road was able to completely relieve that awkwardness.
I'll check this movie out. Sounds really interesting with the identity loss narrative.