The Graduate

Before watching this movie I didn't know very much about it. I knew that it was a classic and that it was about a married woman having an affair w/ a younger man. I did not know that it was freaking hilarious or that so many other movies had stolen stuff from it. Dustin Hoffman has never been one of my favorite actors, I never hated him, but I never really liked him either. In his younger days he was a stone fox! Anyway, he plays Benjamin, a recent college graduate who has no idea what to do with his life. His is propositioned by a friend of his parents. Through boredom or a search for purpose (it is a little unclear which) he starts an affair with this woman (the infamous Mrs. Robinson). After a few months her daughter comes home from college and he falls in love with her. Elaine (the daughter) finds out about the affair and it all kind of blows up. Benjamin becomes obsessed w/ her and follows her back to school.
One of the funniest elements of the film is that Ben never calls Mrs. Robinson by her first name, even mid-coitus. She is always referred to as Mrs. Robinson. In addition, she always speaks to him like the child of her friends that she has known all her life. It is a little weird. Her motives for the affair are a little hidden, she is kind of just an odd woman. As a matter of fact, everyone in the movie is just a little odd. Elaine seems to promise to maybe marry everyone she meets. The film pulls off showing really depressed people w/o being really depressing.