The Graduate

Rating: 9/10 (11 May 2011)

The Graduate is a fantastic story, and epitomizes early "New Hollywood." A story like this cold not be told correctly under the Hays Code, and when the story begins to reveal the direction it is heading, the filmmakers begin to intentionally break all the rules including one's associated with photography like the 180-degree rule.
The music captures Benjamin's emotions perfectly in the film which repetition captures how they never seem to change, no matter what he goes through,and is constantly stuck in a bit of a funk and encountering problems. Even at the end of film when it looks like he finally got what he wanted, the same "The Sound of Silence" plays.