The Graduate

Title: The Graduate
Category: Arts & Humanities / Film & TV
Details: Words: 642 | Pages: 2.7 (approximately 235 words/page)

The Graduate

Great movies remain themselves over the generations; they retain a serene sense of their own identity. Lesser movies are captives of their time. They get dated and lose 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 stodgy middle-class values, and ``the kids'' were joyous rebels at the cutting edge of the sexual and political revolutions. Benjamin Braddock (…showed first 75 words of 642 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 642 total…stars out of delight for the material it contains; to watch it today is like opening a time capsule. To know that the movie once spoke strongly to a generation is to understand how deep the generation gap ran during that extraordinary time in the late 1960s. There were true rebels in movies of the period , but Benjamin Braddock was not one of them. I wonder how long it took him to get into plastics.

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