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Saw this today for the third time. The first time I was 14 and didn't like it at all -found it neither funny nor involving, I straight up didn't get it. The second time I was 18 and loved it. As I write this I am 20 and will be 21 in a week, which is as it turns out exactly how old Benjamin Braddock is at the start of the movie. I haven't graduated yet, but then I got held back in kindergarten for reasons which remain hazy to me. I still love it. Paul Simon's lyrics having nothing to do with anything (well, besides a few lines out of "Sound of Silence"), and that's kind of irritating, and I guess some of the symbolism is pretty heavy handed (though I find it effective nonetheless), but it really does capture beautifully the experience of being boring and indecisive and inarticulate, as Ben is and as I at times am/fear myself to be. And it's very, very funny.