people can talk about it impact at it release and hail back to a more naive america . but have not experience the 70 let alone the 50 i do not have these reference point . what hit me be the youthfulness of the whole thing . that nearly all the character be kid . the adult be mere secondary character while exactly how it seem when be grow up . we do not care about what our parent be do and what our parent friend be do and about the owner of the local arcade . what we care about be the little world fill with kid . old kid . young kid . the kid work at the local burger joint . the film seem to aim at display the world curt will be leave and what they have experience a oppose to what they will experience in the future . in grow up . maybe it a sign of the time but where i live and the world i grow up in life outside of the schoolyard be painfully fill with adult . once 3 represent30 hit we be once again thrown into society where adult be everywhere and what adult say go . so while american graffiti strives to illuminate curtis decision on whether to take that adventure and ship off to college and to engage in that world where he be in control the irony be that he already inhabit that wonderful place . and this wonderful place where the boy cruise in their muscle car while the police officer effort be futile and a disc jockey name wolf man be thoroughly love across the board be completely foreign to me . but that the charm . and that why i love it .