From the latest romantic film "Titanic" love seems to be generous, wonderful and has the power to conquer anything. However, how many people can show this great side of love? In fact, 'love' can be so brutal, raw or even bring a lot of awful influence to one's life. The prominent movie that shown in 1967, "The Graduate", is one of the best examples to illustrate and reflect how love takes form in reality: Love is simply a selfish act – to occupy.
             To fully understand how love becomes a selfish act in "The Graduate", it is better to know some background information about the film first. Mike Nichols, the director of "The Graduate" shows an interest in making his movies on love related topic such as "Closer", his latest production that presents the complexity of love. For "The Graduate", Nichols makes Elaine Robinson, Benjamin Braddock and Mrs. Robinson (Elaine's mother, wife of Ben's father's friend) the protagonists to show how love takes form of 'occupy'.
             This film tells four stages about Ben, the changes he has after he graduated from college. First, it is the confused stage, Ben doubts about his future. Next, is Ben's frustrated stage, he finds Mrs. Robinson takes a grasp on his emotion and his life as she seduces him and starts to have an affair with him. Then, comes the energetic stage when Ben gets Elaine as his destiny, finding his life starts getting more meaningful as they fall in love with each other. And then the last stage, the enigmatic one, with Elaine runs away with him but not knowing what they will do next. This stage is just like the confused stage at the very start of the movie, when Ben got his degree, sitting on the plane, having a dismal perspective. Merely know the storyline of "The Graduate" is insufficient to make it a prominent one at that time, the thoughts that evoked through the fil...