The critically acclaimed, 1967 film, "The Graduate," directed by Mike Nichols, tells the story of Benjamin Braddock, who is coming of age in the 60's; decade of a sexual revolution. As viewers, we follow his mind boggling path as he searches to find who he is as a man and what he wants to do with his life. In the mist of his quest to find himself, he inadvertently becomes sexually involved with Mrs. Robinson, the mother of the girl whom he is dating and quickly falling in love. and he becomes obsessed with winning her love back. The Cinematography in "The Graduate" is simply astonishing and creative, so much so that I have watched this film about four different times. Mike Nichols trusted Bob Surtees as his cinematographer of this 1967 American comedy drama. These two combined their skills and expressed cinematography through depth, zoom, and specific editing sequences. Cinematography is defined as, "the process of capturing moving images on film or a digital storage device" (Barsam, Richard. Page 226). "The Graduate  is one of the extraordinary examples of how a films story and message is told through the lens. The overall outcome of the featured shots played a role presenting the story to the viewer, and also understanding Ben's personality and insecurity issues. The cinematography style that Surtees uses is complicated, but yet spontaneously understandable at the same time. Throughout the film we as the viewer are shown numerous romantic encounters of Ben and Mrs. Robinson. During these encounters there is always a montage sequence that has music, which is defined as, "an editing technique in which shots are juxtaposed in an often fast-paced fashion that compresses time and conveys a lot of information in a relatively short period" (Element Of Cinema). This shows us the viewer the passes of time throughout these romantic encounters that Ben and Mrs. Robinson have. The use of depth in the following scene explains the techni