Togas and tradition: Hollywood's words of wisdom for graduates
Last weekend, I drove out to our local multiplex to see "Spider-Man" with a group of seniors. We were having a great time watching Peter Parker kick ass while wearing a completely baffled look on his face. The film quickly established its narrative, zooming the anxious Parker to his high school graduation, where his friend's father, Norman Osborn (Willem Dafoe), offers him a piece of wisdom: "Commencement is the end, but it is also a beginning."
That was all it took. My senior friends started sighing a bit and leaning into each other, remembering their own impending graduation....
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