The Graduate - 6

Education and societal structures teaches and creates a world of people who are lost. Love is how you can find yourself and be found. This seems to me the story that this movie is telling, and many filmmakers since have followed this theme in some way or another. Although I like this movie a lot, I didn't give it a 7 because it seemed to lack the key knowledge that actions have consequences. And that these actions start to shape one's character. This played out somewhat in the working out of the story, but it wasn't truth that set the character's free, rather it was their wanting to be found. This kind of end doesn't last among a world of untrustworthy human relationships. In the end, I think that we all need to look beyond ourselves to find love that transcends our human failures.