Too fast to live, too young to die

Katrine 2022-03-15 09:01:02

Countless people are thinking about this question, and so is Benjamin at the beginning of the movie.

People sitting on the plane, close-up, the celebration of the scholarship, the sound of wine glasses, the heads of countless gentlemen and wives, the meticulous hair, the white powder that hides the wrinkles, the loose flesh, the eyebrows, the lipstick, the exaggerated expression, the suit, Ties, courtesies, low-pitched voices, slaps on the shoulders, advice, screams, "Benjamin, congratulations!"

"Ladies and gentlemen, we've got our wonderful young Benjamin to give us a dive show!" High spirits, stupid clown , obese middle-aged woman, thighs on swimming pool, umbrella, swimsuit, applauding, family party, entertainment show.

Only the bottom of the pool is left, and the narrow diver, Don Quixote and his sword, Atlantis, is buried.

"Gosh, this is driving me crazy."


The only answer I can think of is, Too fast to live, too young to die.

Like that Mrs. Robinson who seduced Benjamin, white villa, sparkling silver evening dress, leopard print Coat, home bar, bourbon, stockings, straight to bed.

"What were you majoring in then?"

"Art." The


final idealism turned into a quest for true love.

In fact, in that scene, Benjamin caught up with Irene on the bus, sat in the row behind her, diagonally opposite, leaned on the back of the front row and asked her, "Where are you going?" "Zoo". Then in the zoo, there are some blue balloons in the air like tadpoles, and many monkeys in cages. These took me out of the story inexplicably. I think of Holden, why didn't he leave, why did he choose to stay in the end? Just because Phoebe was wearing that red hunter hat and kept spinning on the zoo's merry-go-round? Just because she opened her palm, touched a drop of rain, and put the hat on his head, with the two peaks firmly covering her ears?

Just because God was there at that time, so there was no need to go anywhere?


Benjamin crossed the bridge, through the dense forest, the forest has been there for thousands of years, the fjord, the fjord is a melancholy with arms around it, the missing moon, the song sings rosemary, rosemary. What a long journey, so many people have to roll up the unfolding plains and sleep on the mountains. The sun is opening me up like a stream.


The idealistic moral of the story lies in the huge glass window at the wedding. There is a cross in the center. Benjamin yells Irene's name in a religious image. What did he beat? What was the 60's pounding like a storm? Some people say that we missed tomorrow, the last confrontation with all our strength, the last mass burial of Utopia.

Irene looked up with holy eyes, and when she turned back again, she saw everyone's twisted faces, and she desperately called Ben's name out loud.

It's like a revolutionary awakening.

The so-called harmony will come. In the process of escaping, there were crosses, Benjamin's tattered clothes that had become cassocks, and the bus, rushing in and out, as if it were a so-called leisure.

And this fable with a little religious connotation is fixed on the faces of Irene and Benjamin in white wedding dresses. All the faces in the car turned to look at them, and sometimes the world really has too many faces. Benjamin smiled, Irene turned to look at her, and then they stared straight ahead, with clear eyes or indescribable depression?


Where should we go.


This is the year of the flower's sixty-year metabolite, so the film leaves an unpredictable look. However, it still believes in love, believes in ideals, and leaves the same incense.

Do you believe that

"Too fast to live, too young to die."











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The Graduate quotes

  • Mr. Robinson: Do you ummm... do you want to tell me *why* you did it

    Benjamin: Mr. Robinson!

    Mr. Robinson: Do you have a special grudge against me? Do you feel a particularly strong resentment? Is there something I've said that's caused this contempt, or is it just things I stand for that you despise?

  • Benjamin: Listen to me. What happened between Mrs. Robinson and me was nothing. It didn't mean anything. We might just as well have been shaking hands.

    Mr. Robinson: Shaking hands? Well, that's not saying much for my wife, is it?