The Graduate

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Spencer Nielsen A near perfect film I wish I liked just a little bit more. Very interesting to see a very intimate, personal story shot in anamorphic widescreen. Accurately captures the struggle of legally being an adult while still functioning as a kid in the world you grew up in. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 09/21/24 Full Review Itandawy A The movie overall is an interesting one i've never seen but also is one that is very meaningful and the actors do a good job going into deep in character in the movie itself since all of them are so into character, my favorite parts of these movies are that the flim is really beautiful with it's surroundings from where they are and how they flim the settings their in by taking good angles and direction with it. overall an amazing flim i've watched! Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/21/25 Full Review Joey L I think for a 1970’s movie it’s very well done. Everything to acting to camera angles to drama in the movie is well put together. For most of the movie you are pretty entertained and want to keep watching. Only down side maybe is that the ending seems a little rushed. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/20/25 Full Review Reid S I thought it was an okay movie. The acting was pretty good most of the time. I don’t really think there was a single likable character. The main character is a terrible person. The cinematography was good for how old the movie is. Although, I thought the zoom shots were pretty out of place occasionally. I do like that the movie’s soundtrack uses pop songs instead of a regular score for the time. The movie is funny sometimes but some moments with humor feel very random and out of place. The plot was okay and I don’t really get why I had heard so many good things about it prior to watching. Overall, it wasn’t a bad movie but I wouldn’t really recommend watching it. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/20/25 Full Review Allie P I enjoy the beginning of the movie I liked the music they played when it was starting and I enjoyed the awkward moments and that scene were he was fully suited and jumped in the pool. I also liked the tracking shot they did when he was running to the church to stop Elaine from getting married and how they fought the people and parents off and locked them in the church while they ran towards a bus. And if I am not wrong I think the movie started and ended with the same song which I liked a lot. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/20/25 Full Review Jenna W I think that this movie offers a really valuable perspective on the life of young men and an interesting perspective on their take of women. Even when they aren’t actually saying it, the movie heavily infers that Ben is really lost in life through the shots of him floating in water, looking through his fish tank and smoking and especially the soundtrack. The sound of silence is heard often through the movie mostly on closeups of Ben inferencing that even despite the happier tune at the end of the song he is overall empty. Ben finally feels that he’s found a distraction from his emptiness when he gets the offer from Mrs. Robinson but eventually realizes that it makes him feel even emptier. He yet again gets another temporary spark of joy from Elaine after his parents force him to ask her out and spends the rest of the movie chasing that. Until the ending scene which I think is really telling of his perpetual emptiness and emotional distress that stems from not knowing what to do with his life, something that getting married won’t really fix. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/20/25 Full Review Read all reviews

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