Film Graduate

Film Graduate

The Graduate is produced in 1967 which is a typical Hollywood production. However, it met the 1968 rebel of the unrest student movement, so it ended rather soon for this great movie.

American encountered the 1960’s rapid development of social economy, people began to maintain the operation of capitalist society of the old order, the old tradition of the reasonableness of the doubt, all kinds of anti-social trend of thought is like a rising wind and scudding clouds: black liberation movement, women's liberation movement, antiwar movement and sexual liberation, gay, hippies, reflects the idea of a new generation of disruptive and destructive. Anti-system is the main theme of the literary works in the late 60's.

In 1967, the emergence of the "New Hollywood movie", changing the large factory monopoly system, more close to the real life and feelings of young people thought was put into film productions, Hollywood films from pure "escapism" entertainment products gradually become "reflect the reality of art. Mike Nichols directed the film, to blockbuster postures appear to become the film changes in pivotal representatives. The film reflects is the growth of young people, and the adult society rose in revolt, a fledgling young people to overcome confusion, break the shackles are set up in adult society.

The tone of the film is a comedy, but the theme is heavy and serious, it is in this serious comedy, the film reflects a spicy irony so that the intensity of the irony has been increased. On the other hand, as an artist living in the society, for social satire is often good, also as far as possible to the extreme extent and to the public can accept and comedy is the ideal of neutralizing agent. For a just stepped out of the University, social order has been early by parents for you made, the order is "adult society" ideology, if this ideology is decadent inappropriate, then certainly will give rise to one or a plurality of rising against break all the individual power. Benjamin is the power of the individual in the film.