John Y’s Musings from the Middle: Aging & the Movies

By John Y. Brown III, on Wed Apr 24, 2013 at 12:00 PM ET

Role reversals, aging, and the movies.

Tonight I’m watching The Graduate for the first time in 30 years.

I saw The Graduate the first time around when I was 19 years old.

… This time around I’m 49.

The first time I saw the movie I thought it was about youthful rebellion, young love, inter-generational lust, and the loss of innocence.

This time around I thought it was a movie about the promise of the “Plastics” industry in the late 1960s.See More