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   From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   super70s  wrote:   
      
   >>. . .   
      
   >I probably should have said "any contemporaneous movie made in   
   >1967....", I think Bonnie and Clyde is one of those timeless films that   
   >wouldn't seem dated if it was released today.   
      
   If anyone cares, I don't think The Graduate is dated. Hollywood   
   continues to make movies in which the main character is a slacker in   
   some way, even a college grad or completed grad school, and just hasn't   
   gone into the profession he trained for. I think this will remain a   
   theme for a long time to come. That the younger generation and the   
   previous generation don't understand each other isn't going away either.   
      
   What I enjoy about The Graduate makes those moments timeless, and what I   
   don't enjoy about The Graduate isn't because it's a product of its time.   
   The main trapped character, Mrs. Robinson, married Mr. Robinson because   
   he knocked her up (and she never did anything with her art history   
   major). In a later era, she could have gotten an abortion in parts of   
   the country more readily and more safely, but as she herself was a main   
   character in that movie from the previous generation, that aspect of the   
   backstory doesn't date the movie.   
      
   Nah. I'm usually sympathetic to Mrs. Robinson. Benjamin still left his   
   lover, as the song says, although leaving her for her daughter is far   
   less typical.   
      
   Also, why is Benjamin in love with Elaine? Yeah, she looks like   
   Katharine Ross. Benjamin's only motivation is "Because you were my   
   lover, you aren't good enough for her."   
      
   The movie ends escaping from her wedding and the life her parents wanted   
   for her. That's happiness? She flees with unmotivated Benjamin, and   
   quite frankly, she's not the least bit motivated herself. Are they in   
   love? Are they going to make it work? Are they going to bother to try?   
   Are they going to starve?   
      
   It's hard to imagine a positive future for them.   
      
   I'm sure I said all of this 10 years ago.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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