The Graduate Movie Essay

The 1967 film by Mike Nicoles “The Graduate” is about Benjamin Braddock, a recent college graduate, who is at a crossroads in his life. He is caught between adolescence and adulthood searching for the meaning of his upper middle class suburban world of his parents. He then began a sexual relationship with the wife of his father’s business partner, Mrs. Robinson. Uncomfortable with his sexuality, Benjamin and Mrs. Robinson continue an affair during which she asked him to stay away from her daughter, Elaine. Things became complicated when Benjamin was pushed to go out with Elaine and he falls in love with her. Mrs. Robinson sabotaged the relationship and eventually the affair between Mrs. Robinson and

“Men and women can't be friends, because sex always gets in the way”, is the main theme of the movie “When Harry met Sally”. The script is a good example of the interpersonal communication ten stage model by Mark Knapp. This developmental model entails the stages of a relationship from it’s infancy to an ending. In the movie we can clearly identify all ten stages of this model.

The movie The Breakfast Club was released in 1985, and is based on a group of five high school students from stereotypical cliques; the popular, jock, nerd and the outcasts, who all wind up stuck together for Saturday detention. Throughout the movie many themes present themselves such as teenage rebellion, peer pressure and family issues as the students get to know each other. The most prominent theme throughout the movie is the student’s placement in the social structure of the school. From the very different reasons why they are in detention to the way that they are all treated differently by the principle, their social placement is evident.

Ex Machina is a film about a scientist named Nathan who has selected an employee of his, Caleb Smith, to be flown out to his estate for a week. When Caleb arrives Nathan tells him that he has been selected to be part of a Turing test. A Turing Test is when you have a human and a computer interact with each other and if the human doesn’t know that they are interacting with a computer, then the test is passed. But Nathan has already completed that part of the test so now he wants Caleb to actually see her and have a one on one conversation with her see if Caleb still feels that the robot has consciousness. So, it turns out that Nathan has created a humanoid robot with artificial intelligence and her name is Ava. Ava appears with a robotic body but

The film, “the Power of One,” followed the life of a boy named P.K. from a small child to a handsome young man. It showed all the hardship and tragedy he had to endure throughout his life. Although the movie could have focused more on the apartheid, it instead portrayed the vulgarity of those times through the eyes of an English boy. As time went on, P.K. slowly began to realize the full severity of the apartheid. It was difficult for a child to comprehend how horribly people could treat one another for no apparent reason.

In the movie A Better Life, the Main Character Carlos Galindo is an undocumented immigrant from Mexico who started working as a day labor worker when he first arrived in the country, however he has had steady work from Blasco Martinez who owns a gardening business which he tries to convince Carlos to buy from him as he says he is moving. The idea of being self employed is very appealing to Carlos but he knows he can never afford to do so and the risk of getting caught and deported is very high. Carlos has a son Luis who is reluctant to go to school on a daily basis and gets into trouble as he is influenced by his friends who are part of the

In the movie Wit, English literary scholar Vivian Bearing has spent years translating and interpreting the poetry of John Donne. Unfortunately, she is a person who has cultivated her intellect at the expense of her heart. Both colleagues and students view Bearing as a chilly and unfriendly person lost in her private world of words and mysterious thoughts.

The film Ordinary People tells the story of a family in which one of 2 sons dies in a boating accident. The guilt-ridden brother attempt to take his own life out of survivor’s guilt. Rather than facing the issues as a family, the family avoids the subject and tries to carry on as normal. That is, until the past catches up with them. Much of the aftermath issues the family face could have been avoided using conflict management skills and communication. The mother, Beth Jarrett, avoids any conversation involving her son’s death and her other son’s attempted suicide. Conrad, the suicidal son, copes by shutting off all of his emotions and becomes violent and blames himself for the incident involving his brother rather than going through the usual grieving process. The husband, Calvin, tried to face the issue, but buckled under the pressures of his family and got swallowed up in the turmoils of neglecting the problem.

The film “The Interrupters” shows and gives an insight on crime in Chicago and what the three “violence interrupters” Ameena Matthews, Cobe Williams and Eddie Bocanegra are doing to try to control and decrease it and and hopefully overall put an end to it. We see how violence is experienced in the different perspectives of different individuals in the film. We see how social, racial and economics contribute and breed the violence going on in these neighborhoods. The film also discusses what these “Interrupters” are doing in order to make a positive difference in their community as well as what can be done in communities and neighborhoods everywhere to help decrease this high amount of violence going on everywhere.

Ben escapes the swarm of family and friends. He feels very overwhelmed and confined downstairs. His bedroom serves as his time and place for isolation. This shows that the parents are not really concerned about his feelings or opinions. Ben does not share the same opinions about his future as his parents have in mind. He is basically showcased as a scholar than a regular human being with a desire for acceptance.

In the film The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967), the focus of movie is centered on main character Benjamin Braddock’s life after college, as he aimlessly finds himself being exploited, mis-directed, seduced (figuratively and literally) and betrayed by the antagonist, Mrs. Robinson who coincidently helps him transition from boyhood into adulthood. The central theme of innocence and confusion are also at the forefront of the film’s thematic message, where Ben is often seen lost in his own world. The scene initially opens with a fade-in shot effect from black to blue into a close-up, disembodied image of Benjamin Braddock's face that serves to highlight the moral dilemma of film during Benjamin’s “drifting phase” in the opening seconds of the shot. The purpose of Nichols’s use of non-diegetic sounds,

“Ordinary people” everywhere are faced day after day with the ever so common tragedy of losing a loved one. As we all know death is inevitable. We live with this harsh reality in the back of our mind’s eye. Only when we are shoved in the depths of despair can we truly understand the multitude of emotions brought forth. Although people may try to be empathetic, no one can truly grasp the rawness felt inside of a shattered heart until death has knocked at their door. We live in an environment where death is invisible and denied, yet we have become desensitized to it. These inconsistencies appear in the extent to which families are personally affected by death—whether they

The Big Short is a movie that discusses the housing market crash in 2008. As you may know, the banks, the mortgage brokers, and the consumers were all affected by this collapse. On each level of the system, there were things that went wrong and that could have been changed that could have prevented the failure of the housing market.

"Mrs. Robinson, you are trying to seduce me," says Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman). The Graduate, directed by Mike Nichols in 1967 is an influential satire/comedy film about a recent East Coast college graduated who finds himself alienated and aimless in the changing, social and sexual general public of the 1960s, and questioning the values of society. The theme of the film is of an innocent and confused youth who is exploited, mis-directed, seduced (literally and figuratively) and betrayed by a corrupt, self-indulgent, and discredited older generation (that finds stability in “plastics”) that I found to be quite clear and understanding, while also capturing the real spirit of the times and allows America's youth to perceive onscreen

Brooklyn is a Romantic drama movie. It was filmed in 2015 by John Crowley and it tells the story of an immigrant who came from Enniscorthy to Brooklyn, New York. Her name is Eilis Lacey. She was living with her mother and sister when she decided to come to the United States. As all immigrants, she came with the purpose of getting the American dream. Father Flood, who was a good person, help her all the time. Then, she fell in love with Tony, who was a kind man to her. This essay would describe the main character, some details and where the story takes place. Also, it will show my opinion about the main character and the movie.