Watched: The Graduate
- Dustin Hoffman was 30 (or 29, possibly) when he made this, playing a 20-year-old. I wonder if this would have been seen as controversial had they cast someone more age-appropriate. (Probably not.)
- Whoever thought that Simon and Garfunkel would be a great complement to this film was seriously doing their job right. The fact that The Sound of Silence bookends this film really hammers the whole point home in the best way.
- This film brought up a lot of feelings that I’ve had in the past - the idea of dramatic decisions feeling like a good idea at the time, then watching the afterglow fade to reveal the unintended consequences, is something I’ve struggled with in the past. All that said, given that this is a film about young people getting married (a category to which I belong), it’s refreshing to not see any parallels with my own engagement.
- Ben is someone who feels a need to fill the hole in his life with invented arcs; that’s something I used to cling to, especially when I started university, but I’ve learned since that you find deeper meaning in more complex ways.
- This was so good, though. Tragic, but brilliant.