Movie of the Week: The Graduate

Yeah, that’s right, I’d never seen The Graduate before. Everyone has their blind spots, and for me it’s most non-James-Bond movies before 1975. Thankfully, my girlfriend is much more on top of movies from this era, and Netflix decided to cooperate with the Instant Watch availability, so this great blindspot of my cinematic experience has finally been accounted for. (And YES, this is technically last week’s movie after the post I put up last week was for the week before, but I assure you we will be back on schedule soon, as long as you don’t mind three of these within a week.) Follow along while I react to an almost-fifty-year-old movie that’s already been analyzed to death…

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