"Guess Who Will Eat Dinner" is a love story against racism in the 1960s in the last world. It tells about a 23-year-old blonde white girl and a 37-year-old black doctor who fell in love with each other and obtained the consent of both parents in one day. story. Although the whole movie is full of anxiety caused by the intermarriage of different races, it is a masterpiece of three views on the whole. It is hoped that movies under the banner of "political correctness" can treat the history of racial discrimination with impartiality and benignity. The problem, after all, extreme is not a cure for pain.
Although the two parents have gone through great pain and doubt, they finally ended with the old routine of "love conquering everything". Although the ending of such a wave of forced happiness is easy to be sweet and sad, the older generation is willing to reverse it. Views and attitudes such as the courage to follow the progress of the times are never out of date. More importantly, parents’ educational attitudes and children’s acceptance psychology have been described in detail: using love and tolerance, and the best educational resources available to help them understand the world, parents are only assistance, not remote control.
The twisting of the picture here is also an enhanced expression of the conflict
Of course, it is also a pity that this film did not thoroughly explore the social background and racial contradictions at the time, especially the section where the old white man and the black guy quarreled because of the car accident. Of course, people with perfect Chinese can also see the rise of black status. Gao, after all, the black guy was not scared to kneel and begged for mercy because of the other's skin color. In comparison, the plot of black-and-white couples kissing in a taxi attracting the driver's frequent peeping is much better. It would be better if the black maid’s psychology goes deeper, but it’s a pity that in the whole film she and the black proposing guy only interacted like a world war. Blacks who serve whites, blacks who stay away from whites, and blacks who don’t care about their skin color collide with hypocritical whites, whites who truly identify with equality, and whites who are inexplicably fearful of alternatives. This compact story that happened in one day is yet another How not exciting.
The love scene of the film is not the point at all. At least there is no spark of love between a rich silly lady Bai Tian who may not have a job, and a middle-aged widowed black doctor with ambitious ambitions, but the focus is also on this: when the problem When it really appeared, we knew what the principles we insisted on. The white old man is the best example of this: He instilled equality and freedom, friendship and kindness in his daughter since she was a child, and when her daughter truly became such a person, he was horrified to realize that this white lotus might not be able to be in the sinister world. Happiness, and trying to pick up the privileges of the older generations to attack her already formed worldview, how ironic and hypocritical. As the black guy said, "You shaped her, and I just met her."
My favorite part of the film is that the old black man tries to stop young people’s romance with the idea that he has raised his son so that he can influence his life, and the black guy’s counterattack is a classic line that will never go out of fashion: " You tell me I have no right. I owe you because you did it for me, do you? Even if you walk a million miles with your postal parcel, it's just that you did what you should do! From that day you did it for me Everything you do is what you should do for me! Just like me to my son! But you can’t own me, you don’t have this right! You have no right to tell me when I’m out of class, don’t have the right to let me follow you You don’t even know what kind of person I am, and you don’t even know who I am, let alone my private life, and my feelings! Even if you explain every day during your lifetime, you will not Understand! You are thirty years older than me. You and your generation believe that we should also follow the old roads you have traveled. You will not let us get rid of these burdens until your entire generation quits death! Dad! Listen, I want to get rid of these burdens! You always think that you are a black man, and I, I regard myself as a person !" This passage is either a refutation of the moral kidnapping of children by parents, or old segregation and discrimination. The rebuttals of ideas are wonderful, and the final preaching by the white old man is much inferior.
The white mother played by Catherine Hepburn is a woman who treats her family with tenderness and decisive and intelligent outside. When her men discovered that the boss’s daughter might have talked about a black object, and went to her house to watch the fun, Catherine fired her without hesitation. The squid puts personal principles, family dignity, and ethnic concepts first. This paragraph is really pleasant to see. After the black guy expressed his stand and principles, the change from doubt to approval in his expression and eyes was very subtle, and he deserved to be a veteran and powerful actress.
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