likes and dislikes

Rating: Null/10 (25 November 2003)

The movie The Graduate is a film that has many great things about it and a few not so great features. Many of the good things were the acting, the narrative and the car sequences . A couple of the bad features were in my opinion the music and the relationships. The narrative was very good in that it always had you guessing what was going to happen. The time period which it is set in ads to the overall effect of the narrative. A plot like the one seen would be more dramatic then if it was set in a later period. Even though the time it was set in was more sexually and personally free than in years past it is still quite a shock to see some of the things in this plot. Many of the people The acting in this film is highlighted in the seen where Mr. Robinson confronts Ben Braddock in the room he is renting. Both characters make this situation very believable. You can see and hear how they make it believable. The acting for the most part is good nothing out of this world. The actions shots of the car are very good. They chose not to do them in a studio but in actual places, which makes them so much better. Since Hoffman actually had to drive the car and learn how to do some of the stunts, such as when he drove into the gas station makes them all that better. When he is driving on the high way it is hard to tell if all of the cars are part of the film or if they are just bystanders just driving along. The music for the most part was good but they over used it. The over use made the points in which they used the particular song seem less important and refused the effect of the music. They used different versions of the same song so they would not over play one song but even this was not enough. I thought it was cool how they used the song Mrs. Robinson since it sounds like it was written for the movie. I am not sure if it was or not though. The relationships in this film were very odd. How could someone who has an affair with a girls mother then expect the daughter not to be mad. How can the daughter be mad because she thinks that her mother has been raped then the next minute be ok because the accused rapist says that it was con sensual. It just does not make sense. When the mother looses control of Ben she becomes very mad at Ben as if it all his fault. Most of the relationships between the parents and children were odd. This maybe because it was filmed in the sixties or it could be part of the plot.