just saw "the graduate" have a question about the ending

[jjyiz28]

at the end when the bride and dustin's character are in the bus, they smile, then hoffman's character has a non-emotion look, she looks at him, he doesn't look back, and she has the same look as well. what does that mean?? am i looking too much into it?

 

[paulney]

They are worried about their uncertain future?
I believe the whole movie is about the generation that is lost in the turbulence of those times.

 

[finite automaton]

Uh... It's a movie. Whatever they did was because they were told to and got paid for it.

 

[Tooncesthedrivingcat]

Originally posted by: finite automaton
Uh... It's a movie. Whatever they did was because they were told to and got paid for it.

I don't think you get the question.

 

[finite automaton]

Originally posted by: Tooncesthedrivingcat

Originally posted by: finite automaton
Uh... It's a movie. Whatever they did was because they were told to and got paid for it.

I don't think you get the question.

¿Que?

 

[jumpr]

Originally posted by: paulney
They are worried about their uncertain future?
I believe the whole movie is about the generation that is lost in the turbulence of those times.

Nailed it -- or at least that's the conclusion reached in almost every single college film class that studies the movie.

 

[miketheidiot]

Originally posted by: paulney
They are worried about their uncertain future?
I believe the whole movie is about the generation that is lost in the turbulence of those times.

best answer i can think of

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Tooncesthedrivingcat

Originally posted by: finite automaton
Uh... It's a movie. Whatever they did was because they were told to and got paid for it.

I don't think you get the question.

:laugh:

 

[eleison]

Originally posted by: jumpr

Originally posted by: paulney
They are worried about their uncertain future?
I believe the whole movie is about the generation that is lost in the turbulence of those times.

Nailed it -- or at least that's the conclusion reached in almost every single college film class that studies the movie.

I thought the movie was about a lucky guy who was getting it from both the mom and the daughter.

Later on in the movie, I thought Hoffman's character gave that look because he just realized that the "mommy train" has left and now he can only have the daughter -- he's crying a little bit inside since if he played it a little bit better he could have continued having both.

 

[MaxDepth]

Standard Film 101 Answer:

As soon as they realize they now have what they wanted all along, they're really not satisfied.




But if I can say one word, it would be "plastics"

 

[IronWing]

I just figured it was Dustin Hoffman's permanent expression.

 

[thomsbrain]

I always figured he was thinking "now what?" From the beginning of the movie, he's looking for a direction, something to drive him. He finds it in her, but after he gets her, he's more or less back where he started.