These damn millennials bitching about school debt and no healthcare, just go panhandle for it Chad!

This isn’t a spoiler because literally the moment I heard this movie was about the night of the Tate murder I was like “oh, I bet whoever the main character of this movie is will prevent that from happening in a comically violent fashion.”

OMG - lede pic, the most famous one to include in every goddamn mention of The Graduate and I just now notice the so phallic chandelier shadow on the wall

Wait why does this guy think Grey’s Anatomy is for SJWs?

I sort of imagine that she wants to rebel against her mother, ironically by taking up with the same man she did. I’m sure there’s a Freudian reading to be had.

I can only assume she sees it as taking agency over her own life for the first time. Until she bolts that church she’s done what was expected at every turn.  The final scene lets the air out of any thought that running away with Ben is the right answer.

Nichols handled Benjamin’s arc perfectly. You start out absolutely rooting for him, if for no other reason than you think you’re supposed to, and gradually realize maybe he isn’t deserving of your sympathies.

Watching this now I have a hard time getting past the film’s treatment of Elaine. Think about it. She goes on one date with this guy, he takes her to a strip club and humiliates her. The next day, as he barges into her room while she’s dressing, she is told, quite credibly considering his earlier behavior, that he…

When I first watched it in high school, I definitely rooted for them as a couple.  When I rewatched it as an adult, I was struck by how creepy and stalkery he is.  In general the movie holds up well as a portrait of a graduate trying to figure out what the hell to do with his life, but that part is creepier than I…

“Benjamin Braddock is, after all, a self-obsessed rich white guy, and the problems of self-obsessed rich white guys have been thoroughly explored elsewhere. It’s hard not to notice that the movie doesn’t feature a single character who isn’t white”,

Maybe it’s just me being an idiot, but something about this whole movie just feels...distasteful.

I agree that Elaine was not very well sketched as a character, the only real indication of her desperation was her panic at the wedding. The only other thing that may have attracted her to Benjamin besides the father issue was a desire to strike out against her mother...

Literally every single other man she knows is a one-for-one clone of her father, personality-wise. Pathetic as he is in a number of ways, Benjamin is at least not that. I don’t think the film does quite enough to portray how doomed Elaine must feel in order to see Benjamin as an escape route, but audiences of the time…

The one question that becomes more apparent every time I watch this...what on earth did the Elaine character see in Benjamin in the first place?

I’ve got one word for you, Benjamin: Plastics.

Led to one of the best Simpsons episodes too (S5e25)

“blood in the water...”

the difference between Jaws and Star Wars is that Jaws feels like a movie from 1975, but Star Wars doesn’t feel connected to it’s era at all. Jaws (and THX 1138) looks and feels like classic 70's movies (include The Graduate) but Star Wars look is oddly disconnected from the movies that directly proceeded it. Perhaps…

I was a nerdy little newspaper hound at the time and even read Variety and The Hollywood Reporter at my local library. There were numerous articles in the trades and news right after “Jaws” about how the insane success of the film had become the blood in the water drawing the East Coast money sharks. I can even recall…

This indecently long post that somehow used witchcraft to get me to scroll through the whole thing is definitely haunted.