Grips you from the very first scene

Rating: 9/10 (6 March 2008)

Similar the Opening scene (at the railway station) in Once upon in the West and the scene of Martin Sheen tripping in his hotel room in Apocalypse Now, this movie contains scene that you'll remember forever once you've seen it. I'm referring to the opening scene in The Graduate where Benjamin (Dustin Hofmann) is followed while moving along on the conveyor belt in the airport. No words are spoken and the scene is only accompanied by Simon and Garfunkel's music.
A very bold move by director Mike Nichols that promises a lot to follow later in in the movie. And rightfully so.... Hoffman brilliantly plays the role a young man that has outgrown adolescence yet is too young to be considered a man of the world yet.
It's not a "coming of age" type of movie but does give a great view on the "gap" between youngsters and their rather old-fashioned a parents in the late 60's, and by doing so the movie is an interlude to what happened in "the 60's".