Another weekend means time to introduce the 18-year-old to another notable movie. Today, THE GRADUATE.
It’s been many years since I last saw this thing. I’ve always thought of it
as one of my favorite movies, a story that struck me personally because I
was the same age as Benjamin when the movie was released. He reminded me of myself. Unlike Benjamin I was not quite but almost about to graduate from college, but like him I was unsure of what the future might hold. So
imagine my feeling of empathy when I heard a comment from the kid early in the movie: “He reminds me of myself.“
The movie holds up after all these years. It looks great, it’s still darkly funny, Mrs. Robinson remains a sad, sympathetic villain, and the Simon and Garfunkel songs are just classic and inexplicably perfect for the film. We both enjoyed watching it. We did have to put the movie on pause once or
twice like when Benjamin’s landlord at Berkeley (Norman Fell) accused Ben of being an “outside agitator” and I had to explain campus unrest at the time. “Oh yeah, we read about that in history class.“
But then came the ending. Benjamin is pounding on the glass and the
Robinsons are cursing soundlessly, and Benjamin fights off the crowd by threatening them with a cross, and all I can hear coming from over there on the couch is, “oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God!” And then they
are sitting on the rear seat of the bus with fading smiles on their faces
and I’m hearing “This can’t be the end is it? Is this the end?” And I am
saying, “Watch their faces. What are they thinking?”
The bottom line is the kid loved it and I had a great time enjoying it all over again. Terrific movie.
But then came the ending. Benjamin is pounding on the glass and the
Robinsons are cursing soundlessly, and Benjamin fights off the crowd by threatening them with a cross, and all I can hear coming from over there on the couch is, "oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God!"
And then they are sitting on the rear seat of the bus with fading smiles on their faces and I’m hearing "This can’t be the end is it? Is this the end?"
And I am saying, "Watch their faces. What are they thinking?"
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