Graduates watch "The Graduate"

Ervin 2022-04-22 07:01:04

Looking at it again after a lapse of two years, at this time, I have entered the ranks of "tobacco and alcohol students", and I have a deep understanding of the anxiety after graduation to the confusion of choices after graduation. If you choose too many, you can’t help but feel that no matter what you choose, you will always have doubts in your heart. Would it be better to go the other way? I just feel that I have just come out as a half-finished product just made in the university. While maintaining a sharp personality, I have to be driven forward by the society. This pressure may be the friends around me. How much the level salary has increased may also come from the parents, there is always "how good the children of other people are". And what our future looks like may only be known by God.

The original in the story is more like a member of the vast number of science and engineering men in contemporary China, who has achieved a good future through the hard work of the university. Just when everyone was optimistic, he fell into endless confusion. This confusion is about the future, and also about himself, and it is also incomprehensible to the people around him. In the face of some real temptations, the hormonal impulses of adolescence made Ben wander between rationality and instinct, so there was tension, anxiety, and comicality for the "first time", all of which were very real. Sinking is a kind of narcotic. I am used to the greenhouse of the reading age, so I can escape as long as I can. But they are high-level diaosi in the United States after all. It's not like we are overwhelmed by the most realistic and basic survival problems everywhere, and we can't even take a break for a while, let alone drive a sports car and stay in the city of our beloved girl. can't afford to play.

Closer to home, talk about the movie itself. The director's handling of the plot in the first half of the film is very delicate. The initial self-lost and then the breakthrough are very deeply portrayed, the liveliness outside the submersible mirror, the shortness of breath of the protagonist, and the quiet escape lying at the bottom of the pool are all accurately and profoundly cut. , forming a strong contrast. Coupled with the classic music, everything is connected naturally and the emotions are smooth. As for the second half of the movie, I always feel that there is something missing, which is really not as enjoyable as the first half. For Ben, he may still be confused after the marriage grab, but that's not important anymore, after all, that's youth, who doesn't have those immature impulses?

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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.