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In Top 5 Films of All-Time: Here's Why...
by Yahoo! Movies User (movies profile)
Feb 1, 2008
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Forty years later, The Graduate is still a powerful and relevant film, which puts it in rare company indeed. Ben "wants his life to be different." He's fearful of the cookie-cutter mold lying ahead, but doesn't know what he wants, either. Ironically, it's the older generation that poisons the younger one; that seduces his loss of innocence, then scorns him for it. The movie is a brilliant mix of humor and loss; loss we all experience in our lives and can relate to so well: Lost love, lost dreams, lost direction. Strong, funny and insightful symbolism pervades the movie, from the very opening. The editing is creative and still worthy of study. The Simon & Garfunkel music is solid. The acting and directing are first-rate. It has a great script - numerous quotable lines abound. You'll enjoy the period-piece aspect of the film, also, but it makes it no less relevant to today. The movie ends with subtle hints of hope for, and slight fear of, the uncertain future. If seen when you don't have all the answers, it's a movie you'll remember forty years later. |
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