This was definitely an older movie and you could tell that by the way the sound was within the movie, it almost had a echo sound effect to it, it always sounded like they were standing in a bare room. Just like when you first by a new home, and have nothing hung up yet, you have a echo sound in your home.
In the beginning of the movie they had a lot of emphases on the sound of the music, with showing Ben just sitting there with a blank stare on his face. I knew right away that he wasn't sure now what do with his life, now that he had graduated college. He seemed stuck, as to what he was going to do. He didn't want to go join his parent's party they had for him, because he knew everyone was going to ask what he was going to do now, and he, himself was unsure of that.
I noticed right away some of the emphases they place on that black and white clown picture hanging in the stairway. I wasn't quite sure if it meant anything or not, but they did keep the camera on that picture for at least a minute. Everything was very white, the walls the furniture, and what the women wore, it was very drab and dull with color, throughout the film, with the exception of the yellow color, they had on the roads, and even the women wearing yellow dresses. It was funny how, Mrs. Robertson was really trying to seduce Ben, and he caught on right away, until she made it seem that she wasn't. Then later he totally went for the affair, and totally should not have. You could tell he was a virgin, even though he denied it. In the scene where they were in the hotel room and Ben just wanted to talk, I noticed there were 2 drops of water falling, like if they were falling into a pool, the drops were in the top right corner, it could have just been my DVD, but I think it coincided with the next scene of him just chill-in in the pool.
Elaine was a beautiful girl and her mother new that, and that is why I believe she didn't want Ben to ask her out, because she knew he would fall for her, because they had more in common, then Ben and Mrs. Robertson had in common. I found it interesting how Ben and Elaine had fell in love so fast, and then when he knew he had to tell her the truth about him and her mother, I think he was hoping she would for give him. Although it took Ben some time realize how deeply in love he was with Elaine, it was entertaining to watch how he was stalking her, I got a few chuckles out of watching that.
When Elaine went to Ben's apartment and he asked her to tell him what her mother had told her, it didn't surprise me that the mother had lied. Then when Ben started to tell her the truth, that scream that came from Elaine was so intense, it made me jump a little, it was almost like watching an old fashioned horror movie. The screaming was definitely showing the emphasis on reaction instead of the action.
Now when Ben found out Elaine was going to marry Carl, and he was running to find where they were getting married and he stopped to use the phone at the gas station, and didn't get any gas, I just knew he was going to run out and knew exactly when it was going to happen by the way the director incorporated the music with the running out of gas. With the church scene, when Ben was yelling and then Elaine just looked up with a blank stare, and then all of a sudden yelled Ben's name, which was also very intense. The director showed the visible sound with the parent's face reactions and the yelling with no sound, it was like Elaine was all alone. I was happy that they ended the movie with the two of them riding off on a yellow bus. Although it seemed they ended the movie just like they started the movie, with Ben sitting there with just a blank stare, with the exception of Elaine joining in on that stare, it almost seemed as though they were thinking they both had just made a mistake.
I think the acting in this movie was very simple and easier to portray, although being able to always have just a blank face look, is probably harder to do then most realize. I'm sure the movie didn't cost much to make, but it kept you entertain as to what was Ben going to do, and were he and Elaine going to end up together or not.
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