One of the best movies of the 60's.

Rating: Null/10 (11 December 2009)

The Graduate is one of those movies that uses sound with video to make an almost perfect sequence of combined clips. Long takes and montages combined with Simon and Garfunkel music make for mellow scenes that result in an unnerving feeling, which compliments the scenes mood. It immerses the viewer into the protagonist's life as it races by him with little control. The generation gap between Dustin Hoffman's age group and the adults is clearly displayed by how artificial their dialogue sounds like everything they do is some sort of typical human ritual. The movie gives the viewer the idea that Dustin Hoffman's character is being pushed around all of the time by people who have as good of an idea of what he wants to do as he does.
The Graduate also feels like a revival of classic techniques brought from decades prior. Basic sound techniques were used like an unrealistic bubbling water sound effect, which acted in place of background music. Parts of the story involving relationships almost resemble screwball comedies back when they were created to show love without being at all romantic only the themes are more adult and wrongful than screwball comedies. Dustin Hoffman does a great job at acting like the dysfunctional graduate who almost can't deal with his life in a functional way. The rest of the cast keeps up with him well and give believable performances. It's a good example of how a basic story can be elevated to greatness because of beautiful narrative.