The background of "The Graduate"

Santino 2022-04-21 09:01:27

1967 American film.
The United States in the 1960s, the anti-war trend, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War.
In a turbulent society, there must be confusion and confusion.

Adolescence is actually a long war.

From a graduate who is at the mercy of his parents and overwhelmed, to a private meeting with a half-old milf; from an incestuous fall to his obsession with true love; from a boy who is still timid and reserved with excellent grades, to pulling A man who almost became his wife's girl running on the road.
From shrinking head to tail, to no scruples.
From bewilderment to certainty.
This is how our graduates grow.


The Beat Generation: The literary genre that prevailed in the United States after World War II. The writers of this genre are all young men and women with rough and unrestrained personalities. They live a simple and unscrupulous life. They like to wear fancy clothes. All secular stereotypes and monopoly capital rule, resist foreign aggression and racial segregation, hate machine civilization, they always seek new stimulation, seek absolute freedom, indulge in lust, drug addiction, and indulge in order to challenge the decent traditional value standards, so they are called Be the beat generation. Representative writers include Ginsberg and his work "Howl".

The Lost Generation, also known as the Lost Generation.
A type of Western modernist literature.
A literary genre that emerged in the United States after the First World War.
In the early 1920s, Ger Stein, an American writer living in Paris, said to Hemingway: "You are all a lost generation." Hemingway took this sentence as the inscription of his first novel "The Sun Also Rises", "The Lost Generation. "The Generation" has since become the title of this group of writers who have no program or organization but have the same creative tendencies.
Writers belonging to this genre include Hemingway, Faulkner, Passos (1896-1970) and Cummings (1894-1962). All kinds of suffering, deeply deceived by the slogans of "democracy", "glory" and "sacrifice", and greatly disappointed with the society and life, so through writing novels to describe the cruelty of war to them, showing a feeling of confusion, hesitation and disappointment .

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Extended Reading
  • Beulah 2022-03-22 09:01:21

    Example: zoom replaces editing. The foreground tends to comment on its meaning, while the backdrop of the north implies that the subject and the environment are essentially one.

  • Nikita 2022-04-24 07:01:03

    Really lewd~~ hehe [1.31 2014 rewatched five stars]

The Graduate quotes

  • [first lines]

    Pilot: Ladies and gentlemen, we are about to begin our descent into Los Angeles. The sound you just heard is the landing gear locking into place. Los Angeles weather is clear; temperature is 72. We expect to make our 4 hour and 18 minute flight on schedule. We have enjoyed having you on board, and look forward to seeing you again in the near future.

  • [Mrs. Robinson comes into Elaine's room, naked, and locks the door with Benjamin inside with her]

    Benjamin: Oh God. Oh, let me out.

    Mrs. Robinson: Don't be nervous.

    Benjamin: Get away from that door.

    Mrs. Robinson: I want to say something first.

    Benjamin: Jesus Christ.

    Mrs. Robinson: Benjamin, I want you to know that I'm available to you, and if you won't sleep with me this time...

    Benjamin: Oh, my Christ.

    Mrs. Robinson: If you won't sleep with me this time I want you to know that you can call me up anytime you want and we'll make some kind of arrangement.

    Benjamin: Oh...

    Mrs. Robinson: Do you understand what I...

    Benjamin: Let me out.

    Mrs. Robinson: Benjamin, do you understand what I just said?

    Benjamin: Yes! Yes. Let me out!

    Mrs. Robinson: I find you very attractive.