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I also found it interesting that their “getaway car” is temporary transportation. Remember his car ran out of gas so he couldn’t have used it to escape. There’s a ton of possibilities for symbolism in there plus did they plan the gas running out or happy accident?

So incredibly well done. Bravo! I’m sticking around stage 2 for a while at the moment, but definitely been through them all. Sometimes life circles back.

Anyone else getting heavy Ferris Bueller vibes? from Grant?

I thought the punchline was towards the end where Anton (by chance) gets in a wreck and he bloodies and injures his leg in probably the only time in the movie he was in a place where he didn't control anything and chance finally turned against him.

Solid trailer. Just enough info for a viewer to get a taste of what's going on and for them to get in the hook.

Slight correction; she didn't leave her fiancé at the altar for him. She left her HUSBAND at the door of the church AFTER the ceremony. 😅

Reminds me of the quote "I have a theory that the moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself." Please Don't stop uploading, the world is starved for real beauty and inspiration.

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It was not unintentional. It's up on the screen, consciences or not. That's all that matters. People will point out stuff I do and have no intent. Or did I? That's the magic of filmmaking.

Beautifully done!

Hey Grant-- which camera/lenses? Thanks!

Aw. That was lovely.

That Brooklyn mood

Already excited for the explanation video

Alright but a trailer for a short film? It does look good though

the fact that this still has less than a thousand views is borderline unexplainable

Very intriguing, I’ll definitely check it out

Can't wait! Looks awesome

Hey, Grant! This post is a little long but this is my analysis of the film. I wrote this up when I was in my 20s back in 2015 after my second viewing of _The Graduate._ Someone online needed help understanding the themes of this film and the novel, I think he was writing a college term paper for a film class or something. So, I basically wrote his paper for him. But it's gotten an enthusiastic response everywhere I posted it (IMDb, Facebook film groups and other film forums etc.). It's a little long but it's a fascinating read. This is a copy-and-paste job from where I originally posted this. *PART 1 of 2:* "I apologize for the length of my post, but you need to know the history and to understand the context of the times to grasp the themes of the novel and the film. Youthful alienation, the disconnect between the kids and their parents caused by a disillusionment with the traditional and materialistic values of conventional, suburban American life pushed onto them by the traditional, materialistic, status-seeking, "status quo preserving" older generation (hence the "generation gap"). The older generation (referred to as the "greatest generation") had grown up during particularly tough and impoverished times-- the Great Depression of the 1920s/30s which was ended by World War II, in which many of that older generation had served. Note: the success of many businesses that were involved in the war effort at home was a major factor that led to the economic boom that ended the Depression and helped to establish the United States as the economic, corporate-driven superpower in the 1950s and onward. The mass return of all the servicemen from the War (who came home to start families) led to the Baby Boom of the 1940s and 50s-- the Baby Boom coupled with the economic boom naturally led to the housing boom and the creation of modern suburban living. The youth portrayed in the film are the "Baby Boomers", they were the first generation to be raised en masse in modern suburbia and hence the first generation to discover just how vacuous, empty and unfulfilling suburban lifestyle really is. The older generation really felt an idealized sense of purpose in their youth (fighting the Nazis, surviving the Depression), they grew up impoverished and wanted to make sure their children did not-- hence why they adopted and cultivated such materialistic values. But as an unforeseen result, their children who were very educated (in many cases the first generation to attend college) and were raised in excess with little struggle (a period of economic prosperity, suburban life) felt an emptiness with this excess and their parents' materialistic values, and also with the traditional family values pushed onto them. They viewed their parents' corporate, materialistic and traditionally social ideals as shallow and fake like plastic. Plastic is a representation of everything that is fake in society-- examples plastic toy guns are not real, plastic surgery is not natural. Hence, the famous "plastics" line, Mr. Braddock's friend tried to push the plastic industry onto Benjamin-- it's a metaphor of the older generation passing their empty, fake (or plastic) values onto the younger generation. I know I beat this metaphor to death but I made my point. Another metaphor: the youth felt as if they were being corrupted by the older generation with the pushing of these phony (or plastic) values, just as Benjamin was corrupted by Mrs. Robinson, a member of the older generation. And Elaine too was being corrupted by her parents when they pushed her into marriage (a major tenet of the older generation's traditional values). Another metaphor I just discovered while re-watching it tonight: Benjamin wants to have a conversation with Mrs. Robinson which they apparently never do during their affairs. The lack of communication represents the communication issues of the generation gap. They can't relate to each other. Benjamin tries to discuss art with Mrs. Robinson as they lay in bed. She stated she didn't want to discuss art with a regretful look on her face. Mrs. Robinson had studied art in college and didn't pursue it afterwards, since she was impregnated by her husband. Her dreams and passions went unfulfilled as she too was forced into the conventional lifestyle of traditional motherhood and housekeeping, just as the overwhelming majority of all women at that time were. This emptiness in her life led to her alcoholism. Also, it's noted that Elaine was conceived in a Ford. The pregnancy occurred in a car, a symbol of the 1950s materialistic excess and values. Her dreams of pursuing art are crushed by the same traditional values (represented by the pregnancy which leads to traditional marriage and conventional life of motherhood and housekeeping) and materialistic values (represented by the car where the impregnation took place) that trouble the younger generation. She sleeps with Benjamin (a member of the younger generation) as a means to reclaim her lost youth. Also, notice that every adult in the movie doesn't have a first name. Every adult is referred to as "Mr." This or "Mrs." That. The formality reinforces the separation (or gap) between the two generations. Also, the War, the motivation to escape the poverty of the Depression and to provide for their kids really laid out a "plan", a structure, a direction for the lives of the older generation. The younger generation having grown up in excess felt directionless like they were drifting aimlessly through life (as Benjamin was drifting aimlessly in the pool-- another metaphor). Also, a scuba suit and mask isolates the wearer from the surrounding environment (i.e. the water). Benjamin wearing the scuba suit and mask is another metaphor of isolation in his current environment and how alienated he feels amongst the older generation. While wearing the mask, remember that Benjamin couldn't hear the dialogue from his parents. Communication issues as a result of the generation gap. Continued in PART 2 (of 2). PART 2 is in the reply to this comment.

oh man, such a good video

1) Happy accidents do happen 2) just because you cant find it in the script, does NOT prove that it was unplanned. But it is good to get caught up in the movie rather than be impressed by technique

Really nice film. Thanks for sharing ❤

A very nice film. This is like TH-cam in the good old days. I subscribed, just because you didn’t ask me to.

This is fantastic! Glad TH-cam recommended it to me :)

This moved me. No pun intended. ❤

I'm glad I was recommended your video!

Wow my recommendations knocked it out of the park with this one. I'm from Austin too (currently living in DC though) planning on moving to NYC, basically for the plot, but also for some specific job opportunities. Austin is such a great place and the longer I've been on the East Coast the more I appreciate all the little things about it. Most of all the people in Austin, as you'll come to find, are irreplaceable. But, NYC is so diverse and creative that I'm sure you'll still find your people. I've heard a very gen-Z idiom that LA is shitty heaven while NYC is fun hell, and idk, it's a silly phrase but it's really stuck for me. NYC is such an intense, gritty, superorganism of a city. A giant sweaty provocative compressed coal mine of human achievement and suffering. So beautiful. Best of luck on that plotline of yours my Kerbey Lane comrade :)

Great storytelling my man, glad TH-cam recommended this to me 🙏

Cant wait to see your channel grow, Great variety and beautiful filmmaking. If you're ever filming in Jersey and need some extra hands hit me up. Don't worry we'll avoid all the weird parts lol. Good luck

So this gave me chills... I did the same thing 25 years ago (Ohio to LA) and recorded with the same camera and it was the start of The Journey - which Guinness recognized as the first and longest running video blog. I'm still going today... so many adventures - and 2 feature length films out of it... ... but seeing your road footage in that turn of the century style camera. Absolute chills brother. I'll be watching it all! Keep going!!!

good work!

do it for the plot - i like that! and a lovely short film!

"The difference between a movie I think is well made and a movie I actually like." Whoa

I think you are right about the bus, and it does kind of upset me that your conclusion about that was to retreat from that style of analysis, but on the other hand I do like where you ended up with it that it's not about how smart the director was and how many things you point out, but about how they actually affected you.

Your painstaking labor made me too bored to see this through until you actually made a point.

I love your thought process and am so glad you shared it with us! Glad to have found your channel. Thanks!

The craft is the best when you don't notice the craft and you can be immersed in the movie.

Greatest ending in any movie, ever. But you can't watch it out of context and get that.

I rarely comment but I truly loved watching this video, it felt like a movie-experience of sorts! wow!

It seems really unbelievable that the whole point of the movie, the ending where they doubted everything that they had just believed just 5 minutes before, that feeling was so fleeting and they realized it, was just a filming accident? Amazing

Sometimes artists get lucky and an accident elevates the art. Sometimes they do something intuitively and dont even realise they made a choice to do it. I'm willing to bet that the windows is the latter. In setting up the shot and making it symmetrical, they likely understood the framing on an instinctual level, even if they didn't think "it's like their both in their own glass boxes".

Honestly, I don't think the intentionaility of a choice matters, nor do I think it's what the "curtains are blue" crowd ever really argued about. I think you can pay attention, and consciously be aware of things like the bus window, and it will still enrich the experience. My frustration with blue curtains people was that they seem to argue essentially for mindless consumption, not even noticing those small details that add to the effect of a piece of art. Don't get me wrong, that's totally fine for any individual person to enjoy, not everyone needs to intellectualize everything they like. However, when it becomes an argument that anyone who does enjoy that kind of analysis is pretentious, or a hack, or any other number of insults people have thrown at those critical of art, it seems to me that it just shuts down what could be a really interesting conversation for everyone who does want to participate.

Wow, Loved your video. Honestly, I sat through the first 90% of it thinking, "while he makes some interesting points and he's by several metrics well versed in movie making theory... why the hell do I care about this video?" The part where you argued that movie making as an art form is supposed to make you feel something was so cleverly constructed, it's as if the entire video up until that moment was meant to make you feel frustrated at the lack of any point, only to bring it home with emotional and narrative pay-off. You literally highlighted the problem with focusing too heavily on the details whilst constructing a video full of intricate details. Then you shifted towards an emphasis on narrative arc and emotional pay-off and in the process delivered such a product. Love your work man. This video moved me. P.s. The windows were individual frames, I support this theory and I won't hear otherwise.

that was one of the finest declarations of love for cinema that I have ever seen. Thank you very much for that; and greetings from cologne, germany

You have a good eye. edit: great ending joke

Ah, you've learned the difference between correct and good. Congratulations.

I enjoyed your Ferris Bueller framing as you reflected on purposeful filmmaking. Just wanted you to know it was noted and appreciated.

I was 3 and already knew cartoons weren't real 😂😂😂

These same phases exist in literature as well. Too many authors I've read are stuck in the second phase, effectively writing books for people who are "in the know" to appreciate all the little techniques they used, and pretty impenetrable for anyone else. They were/are downright proud of it, as all true elitists are. And they criticise the shit out of the authors that deliberately avoid all this literary technical show-boating. Personally, my favourite books tend to be those that avoid that kind of technicality but are complex in other ways, like Dune, or books that include the technicality but in a way that adds to the effect without the reader being aware of them, as you describe in phase 3. If I take something I enjoy and dissect it enjoy too much, then I don't enjoy it anymore. If I have to dissect it in order to appreciate anything about it, then I was never going to enjoy it in the first place.

glad i found your channel, brilliant content all around :)