1967, it still resonates with us today. Graduates, you understand my anxiety.
The anxious and confused graduation
seems to be a coincidence. I started this film on June 10, just two days after the college entrance examination. This day means I've been out of high school for a year. After graduating from high school, I went to a good or bad university and studied a good or bad major, which my parents seemed to be proud of. I didn't feel anything about it, I just felt unemployed after high school. Before the college entrance examination, my occupation was a student, and the content of my work was writing questions. After graduation, college students can not be considered a career, because it has no job content. Perhaps children who have experienced the tempering of the college entrance examination can feel it better. When you get to university, you have nothing to do, nothing to do, and you are always at a loss when faced with some choices. I don't know my strengths, I don't know my love, I don't know my future. The same seems to be true of Benjamin in the play. The opening chapter of the play depicts a worried but out of touch face. The director didn't tell too much about Benjamin's past, and let us imagine his past through the portrayal of characters. Benjamin's inner unease, loneliness, and confusion were vividly expressed through a grand celebration banquet (he was a scholar who won a scholarship, so he celebrated). The sound of congratulations and laughter around him is not as good as the sound of silence in his heart. No one really stepped into his inner world. Therefore, he mistakenly thought that Mrs. Robinson, who was twice his age, was someone who could approach his heart. But he found that Mrs. Robinson was nothing but a loner. Two lonely people together are only twice as lonely. On Ben's 21st birthday, Ben, dressed in a bulky diving suit, performed diving for everyone. Amid the cheers and applause of the crowd, Ben walked in confusion in a diving suit. All he could hear was his own breathing. He dived into the water, quietly lurking in the misty water.
Not all departures are for arrivals
Oddly enough, the film asks Ben's future plans several times. Ben himself also took the initiative to ask his parents to talk about his confusion. But the future of Ben is like a shrouded fog, always unknown. Ben is still floating dust in the air without belonging. Until Elaine showed up (Mrs. Rubinson's daughter), Ben made a firm choice - marry Elaine. Love seems to have given Ben's life motivation, like a beam of sunlight that has entered his dark and misty life. Due to his unethical relationship with Mrs. Rubinson, the process of pursuing Elaine will naturally not go smoothly, and it may even be a bamboo basket to draw water. In the end, Elaine decided to marry someone else in a fit of anger. Ben still didn't give up on the wedding day. He didn't know the wedding location, and when he didn't know the destination, he drove wildly and asked as he walked. In fact, Ben also knows that his efforts may be in vain. He didn't know where he was going, what was waiting for him, but he wasn't a confused Benjamin in a diving suit. He took off the diving suit that didn't belong to him, roared all the way, ran all the way... The pursuit of love is a virtue, and God helped him. He trapped those who came to frustrate him with the cross. I thought they should end up with a centuries-long French kiss, but I was wrong. Instead of driving his red car, they stepped on a yellow bus that didn't know where it was heading, looked back at the road they had passed, and then turned to look ahead again, facing the suspicious eyes of everyone in the car, Looking ahead. Benjamin's future is never given in the play. Originally thought that the fog was about to clear, Ben and Elaine would live happily together, just like a fairy tale. However, the expressions of the two of them looking forward together were still full of confusion. The movie doesn't give answers about Ben's future, and not all departures are for arrivals.
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