New vs. Old

Rating: Null/10 (11 May 2011)

The Graduate (1967) is not just about an unsure young man seduced by his dad's business partner's wife, and then somehow along the way happens to fall in love with her daughter, but a movie about the juxtaposition between the new generation and the old, "the establishment" and the generation gap between them.
It also was about the shaking off the old establishment, or the Hayes Code, by introducing topics that hadn't been touched since the Cencorship Code was instated in 1934. The Graduate (1967) explores content dealing with nudity, sexual relationships and affairs, showing a man and woman in the same bed, a strip-club scene, and even a scene involving the main character "defiling" a cross (which no doubt was another slap to the establishment).