The Graduate

I wanted to watch this primarily for the soundtrack. I love the song Mrs. Robinson and knew that it was off the soundtrack for this film so it was added to the list.

I guess the moral behind this film is be careful who you sleep with! 

Young Dustin Hoffman was almost unrecognizable to me. I was expecting something slightly more insane or just very different to what it was but that's fantastic.

I was mesmerized by the transformation. Having started with his later films, seeing his earlier work was a breath of fresh air. I think that i prefer him as he has been known to be in Mr Magorium's wonder emporium but still his undisputed best role is hook.

The thing that bothered me throughout was the editing of this film. Star Wars fans will be able to relate to this when I say the director clearly just had one cut method that he really liked because every scene ends with it just fading to black in the same way that star wars scenes are put together by the swishing horizontal or vertical swipe across the screen. 

What we learn from this is that it doesn't matter how much money you put into a film, into recruiting stars etc if you can't put the money into the editors. The film has to be flawless in every way to really make the big money. I know that we have evolved since this film was made and technology has come a long way but i'm not sure that they didn't have the ability to cut it in a different way at that time. This would be another great time for Rhys to exert his expertise on this matter and enlighten me as to whether this wish would have been possible or not.

The accompanying soundtrack from Simon and Garfunkel was perfect for it. I really feel my admiration for a film lifting when it has a great soundtrack that mirrors and adds to the mood trying to be displayed in the film.