Graduation is the beginning of temptation

Melany 2022-04-19 09:01:28

At first glance, this pair of men and women in "The Graduate" doesn't seem like an incestuous love at all, because the male protagonist Hoffman looks too old, and the actress who plays Mrs. Robinson is only better than Hoffman. Just 6 years older. The song "The Sound Of Silence", which was so bad on the street, made us stubbornly think that this film must be seen and it must be good, so we asked the owner of the video hall to replace it with this award-winning film when we skipped class in the afternoon.

In the face of this monumental art palace, we thought it was not good-looking at the time. Years later, when we became middle-aged and fat-bellied men and women, this film turned into a reunion after a long absence.

Benjamin, who had just graduated, was expressionless, empty and confused. Facing the life course prescribed by his parents, he was absent-minded. Facing the adult world, Benjamin was overwhelmed.

Mrs. Robinson's temptation appeared just in time to make up for Benjamin's emptiness, and then the textbook-style seduction came out. At first, he pretended to look for the bathroom and entered the male protagonist's room. After going wrong, he did not continue to look for it but stayed in the male protagonist's room. The male protagonist didn't see any signs of seduction? A series of excuses made the male protagonist unable to refuse, asking him to escort him because he had no car and not knowing how to drive, tricking him into the hall on the grounds that he was afraid of the dark, forcibly leaving the male protagonist on the grounds that he was bored, and then wine and music , when the male protagonist asks if you are seducing you, use negation to appease the panicked male protagonist, then let him enter the bedroom on the grounds of looking at the photos, and let the male protagonist take off his clothes on the grounds that he cannot reach his back, so that He locked him in the room because he took the purse upstairs, and performed a naked confession in full nudity. During the whole process, Mrs. Robinson firmly controlled the situation, so that he was trapped without realizing it. Her temptation was very immoral, but it made him difficult. control.

This seduction scene lasted for more than ten minutes, and then was done by Mrs. Robinson's nirvana "is this your first time".
Then came Hoffman's bored face. The days after graduation will be numb and repetitive, and the steps will be exactly the same as that of the parents. For Mrs. Robinson, the former female college student who studied art has long since died in pregnancy and marriage, year after year in family life, because the marriage itself will gradually become less exciting and challenging.

He reminded her of her younger self. Perhaps for Mrs. Robinson, the cheating lover, this is not the back version of marriage, but the retention of youth. When Benjamin was with Mrs. Robinson's daughter, it seemed that he had returned to his youthful and romantic self. Two young people were eating junk food in the car. Benjamin said that I felt like I was playing some kind of game. What some people mistakenly create is not that they play the game, but that they are played by the game, which means Benjamin's self-awakening.

Then came a series of very low marriage proposals from Benjamin. The audience was still very happy to watch young men and women fall in love. The rush to marry became the climax of the film, which meant that Benjamin bid farewell to his confusion and became a lover who temporarily has a purpose in life behind the bus. In the film, Benjamin's image of Jesus and the two lovers went from laughing wildly to more confused eyes, which will be remembered by the audience.

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The Graduate quotes

  • Benjamin: Mrs. Robinson, I can't do this anymore.

    Mrs. Robinson: You what?

    Benjamin: This is all terribly wrong.

    Mrs. Robinson: Do you find me undesirable?

    Benjamin: Oh no, Mrs. Robinson. I think, I think you're the most attractive of all my parents' friends. I mean that.

  • Elaine: Good night.

    Benjamin: Are we getting married tomorrow?

    Elaine: No...

    Benjamin: Day after tomorrow?

    Elaine: I don't know. Maybe we are, and maybe we're not.