The film industry is becoming increasingly saturated with tasteless 'bro-movies' in which we are expected to follow the vulgar, misogynistic escapades of a charmless cretin and his band of tedious buddies.

However, once upon a time art was created. The film The Graduate, written by Buck Henry, is one of these pieces of art.

Made in 1967, this film illustrates how women can assume powerful lead roles. This is something 'bro-movies' fail to do mostly due to their feeble and overly-sexualised characters.

In The Graduate, Mrs Robinson, played by Anne Bancroft, is able to control and manipulate the young graduate, Benjamin Braddock by seducing him, making her character the opposite to the stereotype of a weak, subordinate character.

This representation would have been against the norm as 1960s audiences would have grown only too comfortable with the opposite: men exercising power over women. The Graduate helped to pave the way for authoritative and compelling female characters, whose personalities weren't limited by their gender.

Now, the era of 'bro-movies' is upon us.

One of these repulsive 'bro-movies' is Project X, in which women are only referred to as 'hoes' and 'bitches'.

The film follows three losers in their attempt to get girls by throwing a huge party - using these phrases gives them about as much chance as Donald Trump has of winning 'Hairstyle of the Year'. This type of offensive language encourages outdated and harmful stereotypes of women being the lesser and weaker sex. But, hey, it's all in the name of comedy.

The Graduate comes from an age before the world was intoxicated with an over-kill of 'political correctness'.

This is ironic, as we would expect recent films, like Project X, to be free of misogynistic and out-dated views. However, it is modern cinema that is covered in this muck, in which the brain-dead mainstream audiences passively ingest.

So there it is, folks: they don't make 'em like they used to. Not only are modern films just as bad as Keira Knightley's acting, they are also tarnished with insensitive, awful gender politics.

It's a shame the only way film is 'progressing' is towards its inevitable end.

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Alex Caesari, 18, Fakenham