Movies Grow Up

Rating: 9/10 (9 December 2010)

This is just a really great film, from the story which was one of the first films to show the generation gap that started in the 60's where adults and their teenage/young adult kids just couldn't understand each other from how they dressed to the music they were listening to, and The Graduate really shows this alienation that most kids felt during this era in American society.Especially in this one great scene when Dustin Hoffman is in a diving suit and goes into the water this is a great scene for two reasons: first it shows the alienation where he can't here anything (like he can't understand his parents)and he's alone all though he's surrounded by people. The reason it is such a great scene is that it's all in first person so you know exactly what Dustin Hoffman's seeing and there are no cuts during the shot.