Revisit the classics, don't spit out the unpleasant song "the sound of slience" at the beginning of the movie, the lyrics sung in a low voice accompanied by the confused eyes of the protagonist, laid the tone of the whole movie. A film made more than 40 years ago can still resonate with young people around the world today, and it has to be admired.
In the movie, I and the protagonist always feel that kind of confused atmosphere together. Whether it is Benjamin or Elaine, the most repeated line in the dialogue is I don't know. Benjamin in the film is in great pain in the "sense of loss", his greatest wish is to be different, but the surrounding environment of his parents is not Allow, the more he struggles, the tighter he finds himself bound. He was at the center of his parents' social circle, and that became the trigger for his upbringing in the film.
In the film, his parents seem to be exactly like many Chinese parents today, suppressing their children's minds in exchange for a future that they see as "bright". The process comes to an end, rewarded with brief indulgences, and the next step is to practice them. The life plan made for the children, who to marry, work~~~~Why Benjamin actually has a relationship with a woman who is so much older than him, in my opinion, it is he who is eager to get rid of the pattern of life. Mrs. Robinson always spoke to him so calmly, with a touch of domineering, just enough to allow Ben to escape from the family life that revolved around him. Mrs Robinson saw this through and "did" a seemingly impossible task of seducing our graduates into bed.
In the second half of the film, Ben begins to make all kinds of struggling efforts for his love, which is somewhat shameful in the eyes of the Chinese. But when I think about it, it's also the frankness and cuteness of young people. It was in the difficult struggle to regain his true love that Ben turned from a confused teenager and a stumbled youth into a mature man who began to pursue his true self. When repeatedly rejected and obstructed, his eyes were firm and focused, with self-blaming anger. But it is much more glorious than the previous dull confusion!
The ending of the movie is ostensibly a Hollywood reunion ending, but it has a deep meaning buried in it. After showing us the flooded scene of "Bride in the Church", the two dashed into a well-timed passenger car. The two looked at each other and smiled, but they quickly sat down, put away their smiles, and looked deeply into the distance. The element of confusion about the future is back again, perfectly echoing the beginning of the movie.
In my opinion, BEN and Elaine, as representatives of young people, symbolize individuals in the youth group who are eager to break the established "adult rules", but such individuals still must finally face the cruel reality. How to live after elopement? How do you deal with your parents? And the medical student whose bride was robbed?
But I also have to admit that the real reality is often harsher than what the movies reveal. No matter how big a misunderstanding happened, Elaine still loves BEN in her heart, and can she still have such a strong independent thinking ability? And see the ugliness of the previous generation at a critical moment? And the guts to break with it? Such a woman is more or less a screenwriter's ideal, right? At least BEN's parents agree with their son on Elaine, so BEN is happy.
When the young American people in the movie fall into the pain of bewilderment and self-struggle when they graduate, the contemporary Chinese graduates are quite hypocritical and extravagant, because the pressure of life can’t allow you to think too much, and you can’t tolerate it. You think independently, you are not allowed to "do not break or stand", you only have to submit to the institutionalized 'adult rules', in other words: maybe BEN and her girlfriend will eventually compromise with the adult world, but at least it proves that they had doubted that China's graduation Sheng is a little numb in the shallowest utilitarian law.
Of course, this is off topic.
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