This should be a political movie

Armando 2022-01-07 15:52:51

We need to look at it in the context of the 1960s. After all, in the United States at the time, the marriage of blacks and whites was still illegal in more than a dozen states and would be prosecuted. "Civil rights is one thing, marriage is another." From the point of view of watching movies, this movie is relatively ordinary, and generally speaking, it is not very good-looking. The film is filled with a lot of dialogue to express opinions, and as viewers, you can also encounter changes in attitudes of various characters. The good thing is that the performances of Spencer Qusay and Catherine Hepburn are very sincere and comfortable. The disadvantage is that although parents have repeatedly emphasized that it is very important that two children love each other deeply, the audience can only imagine the fiery love of their children from the point that they crossed the racial barrier.

Joanna grew up in an environment that opposed racial estrangement, and in her heart there was no such racial prejudice as the so-called defense of Hua Yi. And John gradually faded this prejudice during his personal growth, so he mentioned in the dialogue with his father, "You see yourself as a person of color, and I only see myself as a person." ". Because there is no such prejudice in their hearts, they can fall in love and talk about marriage in twenty days.

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  • John: After all, a lot of people are going to think we are a shocking pair.

  • John: You listen to me. You say you don't want to tell me how to live my life. So what do you think you've been doing? You tell me what rights I've got or haven't got, and what I owe to you for what you've done for me. Let me tell you something. I owe you nothing! If you carried that bag a million miles, you did what you're supposed to do! Because you brought me into this world. And from that day you owed me everything you could ever do for me like I will owe my son if I ever have another. But you don't own me! You can't tell me when or where I'm out of line, or try to get me to live my life according to your rules. You don't even know what I am, Dad, you don't know who I am. You don't know how I feel, what I think. And if I tried to explain it the rest of your life you will never understand. You are 30 years older than I am. You and your whole lousy generation believes the way it was for you is the way it's got to be. And not until your whole generation has lain down and died will the dead weight of you be off our backs! You understand, you've got to get off my back! Dad... Dad, you're my father. I'm your son. I love you. I always have and I always will. But you think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man. Now, I've got a decision to make, hm? And I've got to make it alone, and I gotta make it in a hurry. So would you go out there and see after my mother?