The Graduate (1967)
I forgot how good this movie is. I haven't seen it in years and had gotten it from Netflix a couple months ago but couldn't get excited about watching it (+ having an newborn cuts into the movie-watching time).
I love the time this film takes. There's not a ton of plot and that doesn't matter. There are immensely long one-shots that meander here and there. Sometimes revealing a bigger picture, sometimes not. It also BREATHES. Long, deep, desperate breaths. This tone is set during the opening titles and is repeated throughout with montages or one-shots set to Simon & Garfunkel's music.
Another thing I love about films from this era (late 60's to late 70's) - if the room is dark, the shot's dark; if someone walks in front of the camera, so be it; it's so much more voyueristic and REAL feeling than a lot of films produced today. I love that quality a whole lot.
I hate writing reviews because I think I suck at it but there ya go. I really enjoyed watching this movie again.
(and the baby slept through the whole thing - whohoo!) ;)
I love the time this film takes. There's not a ton of plot and that doesn't matter. There are immensely long one-shots that meander here and there. Sometimes revealing a bigger picture, sometimes not. It also BREATHES. Long, deep, desperate breaths. This tone is set during the opening titles and is repeated throughout with montages or one-shots set to Simon & Garfunkel's music.
Another thing I love about films from this era (late 60's to late 70's) - if the room is dark, the shot's dark; if someone walks in front of the camera, so be it; it's so much more voyueristic and REAL feeling than a lot of films produced today. I love that quality a whole lot.
I hate writing reviews because I think I suck at it but there ya go. I really enjoyed watching this movie again.
(and the baby slept through the whole thing - whohoo!) ;)
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