Mrs. Robinson, so great and so spiteful!

Rating: 10/10 (1 December 2014)

The Graduate is definitely one of my top 10 favorite movies. Dustin Hoffman was extremely well casted as the main character Ben. His silly awkwardness creates a likability and a connection to the character that not many films can get across, especially when you break down the film to its core and discuss that it is a film about a 20 something year old man who has sex with both a mother and her daughter, the mother of whom is married. The mother, played by Anne Bancroft, plays the character of Mrs. Robinson so well, even though she is an immoral spiteful woman, you can NOT help but really really like her. The film's use of Simon and Garfunkel is also one of the things that makes this film really worthwhile to me.