medium cool/the graduate

(Nichlos cuts from the scene with Ben and Mrs. Robinson straight to Ben in the pool)

While I was watching Medium Cool, I did not really think about the context of when this movie was made. After reading the Ebert review I realized that in 1969 when the film was made it was a new concept for to organize a plot of a film. Medium Cool does not follow tradition Hollywood plot segmentation by any means. As Ebert says Hollywood movies would go from A to B and not even make it to point C. I have seen The Graduate probably at least 20 times and never thought of how it was one of the first major films to experiment with not going through all the traditional steps and using editing to skip point B and go straight to C. Medium Cool definitely did the same. by mixing documentary footage in with the plot of the film there was no clear line between what was real and what wasn't. I think during any film your watching to remember the context in which it was made.