Finding your own way

Rating: 9/10 (1 August 2019)

Finding your own way:
The movie "The Graduate" is a movie about a college student finding his own way after graduate and understanding that every decision has a set of consequences that could either be good or bad. Dustin Hoffman plays Ben Braddock who has recently graduated and feeling pressures of life from father, friends and casual acquaintances. Anne Bancroft plays Mrs. Robinson, who is a sophisticated wife of Ben's father partner in business who has her eyes set on Ben. Katherine Ross plays Elaine Robinson, who is Mrs. Robinson's daughter and Ben's love interest. This was a great movie that has many funny parts but, also has serious parts that is meant to make people think about their decisions prior to taking action. It is a movie about the innocents of a young man named Ben whose is on the verge of having a panic attack from the pressures of what he will do after graduation. Mrs. Robinson is an ex-acholic with narcotic tendencies. Elaine Robinson is a college student who seems to have her life in order until a forced date by Ben's parents that Mrs. Robinson has made Ben promised not to date Elaine.
Mrs. Robinson asks Ben to drive her home from Ben graduate gathering held by his parents. Ben does not want to but, caves after the insistence of Mrs. Robinson. This is the first decision Ben makes that has consequences that Ben never considered. This part of the movie reminds me of "Indecent Proposal", it all refers to the consequences of one's decision.
In "The Graduate", the angels used when Ben is in Mrs. Robinson house after driving her home, showing Mrs. Robinson sitting high and Ben sitting low, showing that Mrs. Robinson in the position of power and Ben in the position of vulnerability. The lighting (lack of light) in the first hotel scene shows the shyness and innocent of Ben.
This movie shows the consequences of every decision that a graduate makes in deciding what their next step will be. It also shows that each decision leads to another(alternate) decision that will be made. With this kind of understanding, I believe the movie was trying to enlighten the graduate to really consider their decision before acting upon it.
I believe unless you are really looking to understand this movie, you will think that it is just about the innocent of a young man and the freedom of a women's sexuality in the sixties.