the graduate

4 years since i first watch this movie.
I was on a bus.
Now, it's a very successful play.
We can definitely have a number of explanations of the movie.
Here's one by Mike Nichols.

I think it was the story of a not particularly bright, not
particularly remarkable but worthy kid drowning
among objects and things, committing moral suicide by
allowing himself to be used finally like an object or a
thing by Mrs. Robinson, because he doesn't have the
moral or intellectual resources to do what a large
percentage of other kids like him do - to rebel, to
march, to demonstrate, to turn on. Just drowning.

Then finding himself to some extant, finding part of
himself that he hadn't found, through connection
with a girl. Finding passion because of impossibility.
Impossibility always leads to passion and vice versa.
Going from passion to a kind of insanity. Saving
himself temporarily from being an object, through the
passion and insanity. Getting what he thinks he
wanted and beginning to subside back into the
same world in which he has to live, with not enough
changed. I think that's the story.