The Graduate is one of those movies that never turns out quite as gentle as it is in the memory. As the benchmark for every inter-generational relationship film since (and, quite probably, until eternity), it tends to live in the male public imagination largely as a reference point for cheeky forbidden fantasies regarding older women the world over. "Great!" you say to yourself, as a bloke, somehow remembering an alternative universe where seductive, alcoholic Mrs Robinson, played by Anne Bancroft and Dustin Hoffman's painfully nervous Ben do something that vaguely resembles fun, and then you actually watch it and wonder what on earth you were thinking.
It takes about three minutes – roughly the length of time it takes Hoffman to get down the moving walkway to Simon and Garfunkel's Sound of Silence and from the airport to the suffocating atmosphere of his graduation party, where he gets gradually trapped into a relationship with one of his parents' friends – to realise that The Graduate is actually a very nasty film, and a very, very funny one.
The Graduate is one of those movies that never turns out quite as gentle as it is in the memory. As the benchmark for every inter-generational relationship film since (and, quite probably, until eternity), it tends to live in the male public imagination largely as a reference point for cheeky forbidden fantasies regarding older women the world over. "Great!" you say to yourself, as a bloke, somehow remembering an alternative universe where seductive, alcoholic Mrs Robinson, played by Anne Bancroft and Dustin Hoffman's painfully nervous Ben do something that vaguely resembles fun, and then you actually watch it and wonder what on earth you were thinking.It takes about three minutes – roughly the length of time it takes Hoffman to get down the moving walkway to Simon and Garfunkel's Sound of Silence and from the airport to the suffocating atmosphere of his graduation party, where he gets gradually trapped into a relationship with one of his parents' friends – to realise that The Graduate is actually a very nasty film, and a very, very funny one.
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