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| 1. Sunday, July 12, 2009 8:16 PM |
| Nefud |
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Finally got around to seeing this, and I have a quick question. I have not idea what the critical canon canon regarding this film has to say, but am I alone in thinking that the film is an indictment of the baby boom generation, and its near-sociopathic levels of apathy toward anyone's interest but their own? The only person in the entire film I was able to identify with was Mr. Robinson, when he calls Ben out on being a disgusting person. It was pretty funny in places, though I really wish I could've seen it in a vacuum, unencumbered by the 40 hojillion parodies I've already been exposed to.
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| 2. Sunday, July 12, 2009 8:41 PM |
| Booth |
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Made this for some thread.
| QUOTE: Back in the 1960s there briefly existed an "anti-elitist" movement that managed to get some movies altered for certain markets. |
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| 3. Sunday, July 12, 2009 8:39 PM |
| MayRay |
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I love the music. I think it's a comment on bored housewives. The film that is.
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| 4. Monday, July 13, 2009 11:46 AM |
| Rigpa |
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It's interesting to me that although this movie was made in the late 60's, there are no hints of hippies, flower-power, or the upcoming summer of love. Ben is certainly not a rebel, even though he resists his parents' expectations of him to conform. It is just a matter of time before he enters the corporate world. For me, Mrs. Robinson is the only character I cared about. I felt her plight much more than Ben's...a beautiful, intelligent, artistic woman who lost her dreams in the drudgery of an upper-middle-class life. That is what I see this film being about---how life-crushing and mind-numbing the suburban way is.
"I'm talking about seeing beyond fear, Roger. About looking at the world with love."
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| 5. Monday, July 13, 2009 1:08 PM |
| Douglas Ferns |
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The music, the opening credits sequence, the hilarious awkwardness in the first Mrs. Robinson scenes and the wedding brawl were highlights of the movie. The rest was slow.
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| 6. Monday, July 13, 2009 4:40 PM |
| Lynchman72 |
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For years, everbody told me what a great movie it was, and I had to see it. When i finally did, I was disappointed. The music and acting was good, but after viewing it I was like: "so what?"! I felt the same way with Easy Rider. I'm a big Nicholson and Hopper fan, but the movie didnt do anything for me. I dont know if this is because I wasnt born yet and didnt live through the whole flower-power shit?
Ben: "We've laid in a gala reception for your fair-haired boys tonight. All of Twin Peaks' best and brightest." Jerry: "We're holding it in a phone booth?"
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| 7. Monday, July 13, 2009 4:45 PM |
| Douglas Ferns |
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Easy Rider was terrible, and it had a lousy ending, especially with that ridiculous acid trip scene. The only good thing was seeing Dennis Hopper, whose character I liked in 24.
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