"Guess who will eat dinner" does not overstate racism. On the contrary, the confrontation between father and son, the memory of love by wives, and the encouragement and blessing of the protagonist and heroine by the father at the end of the film are about family and love. The plot is the warm power that builds up the whole story.
The protagonist is set as a successful black doctor. I don’t think that this kind of personality is "in order for the protagonist to match the heroine" as some friends commented, but to make the whole contradiction the focal point. Focus on the "only problem" of racism. In addition, the heroine is set as a typical blond white girl, and the girl’s father is a human rights fighter who has dedicated his life to the equality of black and white but cannot accept the marriage of black and white in his own family. ("The Civil Rights Act is one thing, emotional Acceptance and integration are another matter.”) Both are to highlight the root of the problem.
Although the problem in the whole incident was due to the different races and skin colors of the heroes and heroines, the way to solve the problem turned the perspective to love and family.
In the conversation between father and son, the actor said to his father: "You think of yourself as a black man, and I think of yourself as an ordinary person." (But you think of yourself as a colored man, i think of myself, as a man.)
In the conversation between the hero’s mother and the heroine’s father, she said: "What happened to men? When they get old, they forget what love is? You can only see What you see in front of your eyes, money, status, skin color, you have forgotten how it felt to love a girl at the time? What kind of monsters do men become when they grow old? You can’t see how the young couple love each other Do they need each other? My mother and I know all this and know that we are going to stand behind the young couple and support them as long as they see the way they look at each other. But what about you?"
And in the wonderful speech of the white father at the end of the film, he also expressed his memory and feelings for love: "I am old? Yes. The burning will go out? There is no doubt. But I can tell you that my memory still exists. If I live to be 110 years old, they will still be there.” In the
same speech that turned the situation around, the girl’s father did not resolve the conflict by advocating racial equality, but instead used love as the reason to convince himself. The lovers. "You are two wonderful people. You happened to love each other, and happened to have a racial problem." (But you're two wonderful people…who happened to fall in love...
and happen to have a pigmentation problem.)
here The race problem is just a "coincident" problem, just like many other problems that may "coincidentally" appear, and only family, and only love, is eternal. This may also give us some enlightenment on how to deal with issues such as racial discrimination.
Judging from the current point of view, intermarriage between different races may not be new for a long time, but there are still many aspects worthy of our efforts in dealing with love between the same sex, and even marriage. And this is exactly the best practical enlightenment that this film can give.
Perhaps we should reflect on the issue of racial discrimination has greatly improved today, when the hell are we gonna get some dinner?
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