The Graduate

"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.” –Ben The  Graduate is about  a young man who doesn’t know what the next step of his life should be and it gets pretty messy with some of this choices.  To us this movie was a pretty good, overall, although if we didn’t have to watch it we probably wouldn’t have.  We rated this movie a 3.5 out 5 because of the slow moving  pace, and some of the acting, although we did like the music.

The main cast according to http://www.starpulse.com/Movies/Graduate,_The/Cast_and_Crew/ is:
Dustin Hoffman - (Benjamin Braddock)
Anne Bancroft - (Mrs. Robinson)
Katharine Ross - (Elaine Robinson)
William Daniels - (Mr. Braddock)
 Elizabeth Wilson - (Mrs. Braddock)
The Director was Mike Nichols, and the writers were Calder Willingham, Buck Henry.The genre of this movie is comedy and it definatley fits it; although some of the scences like in the church at the end are a little out of hand we still thought this movie was very funny. We liked almost all the acting except Dustin Hoffans monotone voice. Some of the symbals were when they gave Ben a scuba suit and wouldn't let him out of the pool and pushed him down with the pressure of the water surrondering him, we think this is a symbal because Ben had so many decisions to make in his life and so much pressure from his family, just like the water pressure.

The rising action to us would be with Mrs. Robinson started to come onto Ben at his graduate party, her alone with him in the bedroom was just the start of all the unappropriate scences in this movie. We think this movie was about sex and doing things you would never think of doing back in this time period. It really shows how times were and have changed.

The Climax was definatly when Ben called Mrs.Robinson to began his sexual relations with her at the hotel, that was just the start of many times to come with her, which later on Ben really regreted. At first we didn't think that Ben was going to do this because the Robinsons were old family friends with his parents for. However we think Ben did this because he was under so much pressure and losing his way in life.

The falling action for us started with Mrs. Robinson threatening him that he couldn't see her daughter, Elaine, later on Ben falls in love with her. Ben at first didn't even want to but was foreced to either take her out or his parents would have the entire family over, just think of that awkwardness. It was unbelieveable how much Ben had to try with Elaine she had him around her finger along with Carl. For us more of the falling action was when Ben scearched forever to finally find Elaine at the alter marrying another man. Although she didn't go through with it because there was a huge up roar and a family fight, we can't forget the crucible! At the end of all the madness we see Ben and Elaine on the bus where they finally escaped to with the look on their face like they had no idea what to do or what the next step was. We think they ended up getting married.

"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.” –Ben The  Graduate is about breaking the rules and starting to go against your parents, against society and do the things you'd never really think you would do, during this time there was alot of rebellian. The movie really showed us how generations change and how they always will continue too.