Most of the classic American movies are often very simple. For example, "The Shawshank Redemption" tells a story about the escape of a wronged person, while the bad Chinese movies are called "wonderful movies" by the Tenth Screening Room. , it is often very complicated to do, such as "Wuji" and "Painted Wall". In the end, the director guessed that he forgot what he was talking about and just said a few words - it's almost ninety minutes, everyone should leave. But American classic movies are simple and not superficial. If you have seen "The Shawshank Redemption", you will feel the power that has been suppressed by the darkness for a long time and finally exploded; if you have seen "Titanic", you will feel Impressed by the kind of true love that is life-and-death at first sight; Chinese bizarre films are complex and stupid, and they seem to reach a certain height, but they tend to sink faster than anyone else.
A classic movie is not about dazzling the audience with dazzling stunts, and finally everyone can go out holding hands, but it can quietly sneak into the heart of the audience little by little while the audience is watching the movie, waiting for the climax of the movie to come. Resonate with the audience for a moment, so that the audience will not forget the movie after leaving the cinema, and even if the movie is remembered many years later, then this movie is a classic. So the classic movie is to use the simplest story to touch the most vulnerable part of the audience's heart and resonate. Of course, this is not an easy thing.
"The Graduate" is a simple but not superficial film.
The identity of a graduate is not simple. At first, I was surprised that the main body of the film is not about campus life or graduation ceremony. The so-called graduate is just the identity of the hero Benn, and it is also used as the title of the film? Not really, the identity of the graduate is crucial in the film, and it is this identity that provides the general context for Benn's actions in the film. Benn is a graduate. And he was a student who focused on his studies during school without falling in love or romance, for which he got a scholarship, for which his parents were proud of him and threw a party for him at the beginning of the film, and it was this party Offers Mrs. Robinson an opportunity to seduce him. On the one hand, the status of outstanding graduates provided the possibility of incest between the two later, because Benn focused on studying and had little contact with girls at school, so he could not stand the romantic and beautiful Robinson without going through the affairs of men and women. The temptation of his wife, on the contrary, if Ben was romantic at school and spent all day in the flowers (Ben was a handsome young man), how could he be tempted by a milf! On the other hand, it provided time for their tryst. If it wasn't for graduates, Ben would not have time to meet Mrs. Robinson either at school or at work.
Speaking of incest, a 21-year-old was first seduced into adultery by the wife of his father's best friend, and then, at his parents' arrangement, dated and fell in love with the daughter of his father's best friend. If this kind of incest plot was filmed for Kim Ki-duk, he would film Ben Eun and the mother and daughter both in bed, and then the mother and daughter would fight each other brutally, maybe in the end until everyone died; if it was filmed to Wong Kar Wai, maybe At the beginning of the film, Benn with a cold face appeared in his monologue: "Many years ago I fell in love with a woman, she was the wife of my father's friend, and many years later, I fell in love with this woman's daughter..." Actually This kind of incest plot is a bit difficult except for shooting a gunfight adventure sci-fi, and it is not a problem to make it into eroticism and horror, but the end point of this movie is also its wonderful thing is that it is not incest or love, but "repentance". In the film, the infatuation and passion of Ben and Mrs. Robinson are not exaggerated, and the love between Ben and Elaine is not enough, but if you taste it carefully, you can feel the regret of Ben's later.
It is this "regret" that makes this film out of the superficiality. What is the truth of a person who cheats with a woman and wants to get the love of this woman's daughter! But in the film Ben is seduced and naked, and later he repents and struggles. This is a constant theme of "repentance" in Western Christianity. People are born guilty, and it is important to repent of oneself. This is similar to the Eastern Buddha's practice of laying down his butcher's knife and becoming a Buddha. This is also an eternal topic in the emotional experience of all human beings. If it is put on all human beings, "incest" will become "temptation". Since Adam couldn't help temptation and Eve stole the forbidden fruit, how many temptations do we face every day in this world, and how many temptations do we hold ourselves before growing up?
Another meaning of graduates is a person who gave up something in order to pursue a certain goal. Benn temporarily gave up good love and love between men and women for the sake of his studies, but he couldn't control himself and what he could do after graduation. His mother's woman had an incestuous relationship. When he discovered the love that really belonged to him, the things that could have been easily obtained were difficult because of previous mistakes... The director in the film gave Ben a bright little tail, But how many possibilities are there in practice? So when you give up something in pursuit of a certain dream, you must withstand the temptation, because when you are tempted, the most sorry person is not others but yourself. Maybe you are no longer pure, maybe you are no longer persistent, maybe you You can never go back to your old self...
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