The classroom of life can never graduate

Elsie 2022-01-26 08:02:37

This film is quite interesting to recall.

A Ben who just graduated from college, confused and overwhelmed, was seduced by the married Mrs. Robinson and started to be a little lover, but then he fell in love with his daughter at first sight, pursued Eliane frantically, and took her from the wedding. Got it back.

Crazy? Of course!

But with the recurring background musicThe slowly rising, you can feel the sadness and loneliness in it.

Mrs. Robinson was a college student studying art, but now facing her husband who no longer loves and sleeps in separate rooms, she chooses to find more youthful stimulation by herself, but that is just a need. In middle age, although her daughters have grown up and generous, she still maintains a girl's figure and delicate makeup. What has worn away her original passion and reduced her to what she is now. There are very few descriptions of Mr. Robinson in the film, and only a few times the topic is limited to his own daughter. Do men switch their feelings from their wives to their daughters?

Benjamin is a typical child who was raised by his parents. When adults tell him to study, he studies, and when they ask him to perform, he acts. Adults just want to be proud and proud in front of others, but sacrifice the child's own character and choice. So when he graduated from college, Ben was confused. He became tired of what he had done before, but at the same time, he couldn't find what he really wanted in his heart, there was no way forward, and there was no way back. So at this time, the moral restraint originally established with the help of parents and society was easily disintegrated by the temptation of Mrs. Robinson.

We thought it was funny when Ben went to the hotel for the first time to have an affair, but then we couldn't laugh when we saw that Ben could lie down on the hotel bed and smoke. There are so many ways to grow up that the process is too obscure.

Knowing that Ben had met Elaine and was overwhelmed by Elaine's tears, he found what he really wanted. The long-suppressed desire was finally released. I think the word catharsis is appropriate, as if Ben used all his previous pursuits of his ideals to pursue Elaine. It doesn't matter if you have an affair with your girlfriend's mother; it doesn't matter if your girlfriend abandons you because of it; it doesn't matter if your girlfriend's parents hate you; it doesn't matter if your parents give up on you; even if your girlfriend is married, it doesn't matter, you can get it back!

Just at the moment when you pulled the bride in white gauze away from the wedding and got on the yellow bus, you laughed heartily, then gradually closed into a smile, and finally fell into a helpless silence. Who can guarantee that Ben and Eliane will not become another pair of Mr. & Mrs. Robinson.

It turns out that youth is for squandering, and then you wake up, and after the madness, continue to sink. Everything is just fated.

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The Graduate quotes

  • Benjamin: It's like I was playing some kind of game, but the rules don't make any sense to me. They're being made up by all the wrong people. I mean no one makes them up. They seem to make themselves up.

  • Mr. Robinson: [in anger for ruining Elaine's wedding] You punk! You crazy punk! I'll kill you!