It's the 60s Man

Rating: 10/10 (21 September 2005)

I applaud the Graduate for challenging the mores of the time. Even today, young people are challenging their guardians more and more on life, love and the pursuit of happiness. My spouse and I eloped at age 21 and 20 respectively, and have been married 33 years now. Although, we eloped five years after this movie was made, and there would be an argument this movie had a profound effect on our lives, I would argue that point. I know there was no thought in my mind at the time relative to this movie, and I can't speak for the better half. Yet, this was an important movie about relationships and sex.
Making this movie special is the music of Simon and Garfunkel so beautifully carved into the movie, the first of many running scenes for Dustin Hoffman, a stellar performance by Anne Bancroft, the interplay of emotions between Bancroft and Hoffman, and the message about plastics, which turned out more real than even the business community at that time and in the next fifteen years would know. (the 80s and custom injection moulding) What would you have done if trapped in a room by someone you were not joined to and found attractive?