There's a famous scene in the 1967 film "The Graduate," in which a middle-aged businessman informs the movie's title character, Benjamin Braddock, that he has "just one word" of advice for the presumably enterprising young man: "Plastics." The scene is meant to convey the vapidity of the adult world that Benjamin is expected to join what could be more degraded and fake than plastic? But the joke is on Benjamin and the film's creators, because not only are the businessman and his cohort plastic, but so is everyone else in the film, including Benjamin and the drippy young woman he runs off with in the end.
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