Guess who will eat dinner-the law has changed, and people's views have not changed.

Brionna 2022-01-07 15:52:51

The film started with a beautiful and intelligent white girl from the upper class and an excellent and outstanding black doctor from the working class for more than ten days. They fell in love with each other and decided to get married and start a family. In the middle of the experience, they almost have to be with each other. The father broke up and ended up with the two families and one of the best friends of the girl's parents, the priest, sitting at the dinner table together. The reason why they were able to sit together in the end was a perfect result, and the key was the attitude of the girl's father. When he first heard about his daughter’s decision, he was extremely shocked, but could not find a suitable reason to object, he could only say that he should be given time to consider; there are probably three things that prompted him to make a final statement: one is The doctor said that if he definitely disagrees with their marriage, he can only accept it; second, his wife categorically told him that she would stand firmly on their daughter’s side; third, the doctor’s mother said to him "how? Some men become like this when they grow old? "(It means that they don’t understand the feelings of young people.) These, which prompted him to finally say, "What will you face? Have to deal with all this. "Social reality is also true:" The law has changed, and people's attitudes have not changed." Where is the reason? This is a very complex and deep-rooted social problem in American society. The doctor said to his father, "You treat yourself as a black person, and I treat me as a person." If most of the black people can say that, this problem may be basically solved. Otherwise, a Chinese writer would not say that; he once said that he was most afraid of two things in his life, one of which was "daughter marrying an African-American." (The other fear is "fearing that his son is gay". This The author’s words are both humorous and profound.) The highlight of the film lies in the outstanding performance of the seven actors sitting on the dining table plus the eight role actors of the black maid. They can appropriately show each person's inner activities that are neither stunned nor irritated.

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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?