I find that The Graduate is a good movie and the quality of this film is excellent. The actor and actress, Dustin Hoffman (Benjamin Braddock), Anne Bancroft (Mrs. Robinson) and Katharine Ross (Elaine Robinson) play his or her part perfectly. The style of the move is also quite professional. When Benjamin moves ponderously through the crowd to his pool in his 21th birthday's party, the camera work exactly conveys the sense of being pushed up against the glass or being shoved under water by his parents and circumstance
The content of this movie is risque for the 60s. It talks about Benjamin is an upper-middle-class young man who has just graduated from a college with no idea of what to do with his life. Mrs. Robinson, a close family friend ol
In the beginning of the film, Benjamin has never really talked to anyone. All his response is in as perfunctory a way as possible. His relationship with Mrs. Robinson has never gone beyond the physical, as evidenced by the fact that he never calls her by her first name. Now, when he meets Elaine, he feels a need for communication. Because of age, he finds that he is more comfortable with Elaine than Mrs. Robinson.
Nichols, The Graduate director, used mostly the eye-level camera angle in the movie. However, he also used some others type of camera angle such as high-angle, when Benjamin jumps into the pool and sinks to the bottom. Nichols used many different shots in his movie such as in the opening with a close-up of Benjamin's impassive fac
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