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Deja 2022-04-19 09:01:28
Taking advantage of this year's 4K restoration, I revisited "The Graduate", but I felt different from watching it many years ago. In the past, when I watched it, I paid more attention to the confusion of the male protagonist Benn after graduation, and he fell in love with Elaine. Falling in love, highlighting the difficulties and winning the kiss, the long shot of Dustin Hoffman's transition from ecstasy to bewilderment on the bus at the end is an unforgettable moment on the screen, and now it seems that it is more about being able to To experience the confusion of going out of the campus and entering the society in adolescence is like the male protagonist diving into the pool several times. It is not how much he likes diving. What he wants to express is actually an escape. This is the emotion and behavior that everyone has. However, When the male protagonist finds a new direction in life, he can resolutely abandon it and take no care of himself. Even if he is still confused and unknown, at least he will break with the wrong past, find his own direction worthy of effort, be youthful, and bear the price of making mistakes. more inclusive. The tone of this restoration is rather grim, while the echoes of "The sound of silence" and "Scarborough Fair" evoke infinite memories and emotions.
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Lizzie 2022-04-24 07:01:03
I know what's good about it and why it's a classic, but I really don't feel the whole process. Movies like youth, anxiety, confusion, cruelty, inexplicable tossing, inexplicable love-hate, no matter how I look at it, I think it's too much. Maybe it's because I haven't been confused at all, I know what I am and what I want very early on.
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Lottie 2022-04-24 07:01:03
Well, Ben has become my most hated movie hero, a "Hiroshima love" type of character, who will only blindly say let's get married, regardless of whether the woman agrees or not, he talks to himself. Speaking from the play, he never dared to face the affair of Ben and Irene's mother, and never thought of solving it. Talking with Irene's mother in bed about the details of how to have sex with her husband, how Irene was born is really disgusting. I keep asking you if you think I'm not worthy of your daughter, and indeed, you just don't. The way the movie makes the audience expect Ben and Irene to be together is to make Ben even more miserable, driven by the landlord, stopped by his father, abandoned by Irene, chasing a car and running a series of things. But it can only prove the failure of this character from another angle, which is not worthy of the episode.
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Benjamin: [after Elaine has left his room, and he realises that he's naked] Good God.
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Gas station attendant: It's six blocks up and... three over.
[as Ben races out and leaps into the car]
Gas station attendant: Do you need any gas, Father?
[the empty fuel gauge fills the screen just as Benjamin drives off]