Should you watch The Graduate?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
The Graduate
Film · 1967
A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.
The sides of The Graduate
- A young graduate with no plan
- An affair with Mrs. Robinson
- Simon and Garfunkel songs
The Graduate is good for you if…
- you know the feeling of finishing school with no idea what comes next.
- you like a film carried by Simon and Garfunkel songs.
- you like an ending that leaves you unsure what the characters feel.
The Graduate is bad for you if…
- you find films from the 1960s dated.
- you can't follow a hero who sleeps with Mrs. Robinson, then chases her daughter.
About: aimlessness · seduction · growing up
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