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| Topic | The SephG Top 250 [movies] - Topic II: the top 75 |
| Nelson_Mandela 07/07/19 5:58:37 PM #163: | #22. The Graduate https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8b/Graduateposter67.jpg Dir: Mike Nichols Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama Year: 1967 SephG Superlative: The greatest comedy ever made Even though it was released 50+ years ago, no film has better captured that post-graduate, quarter-life-crisis-defining ennui as The Graduate. The entire romance/love affair is really a surrogate for this larger story--one of aimlessness, the struggle to find meaning, the inflection point between youth and maturity. Benjamin Braddock is a character for all of us, someone who realizes that he is at the point where he either has to conform to society or not. It's all very 1960s, but still resonated with me tremendously when I first saw it as a teenager and again when I was Benjamin's age. This is not to say the surrogate story isn't amazingly fun, humorous, erotic, sexy, and charming all at once. Mrs. Robinson is the OG MILF and defined the cougar fantasy for generations to come (pun intended). The Simon and Garfunkle soundtrack fits the mood perfectly and is undoubtedly the greatest original soundtrack of its type, ever. The ending has been etched into my brain since I first saw it parodied in Wayne's World, and it's still the most emblematic part of the entire film for me. Simply put, it's the best comedy ever created and utter perfection from top to bottom. --- "A more mature answer than I expected."~ Jakyl25 "Sephy's point is right."~ Inviso ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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