MF_BREW
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The topic of this movie is interracial dating with Sidney Poitier in the lead. I was watching this movie for min and this scene didn't sit with me .... Y'all tell me what yall think.
Guess who coming to dinner? Is it a problematic movie?
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I side with Jaaahn /Brother Sid.
The whole movie is problematic, but the movie came out only 6 months after Loving v. Virginia. Also, it was written by a white guy and directed by another white guy so the insight isn't exactly profound.
It's a problematic movie when looked at through the prism of current times but for when it was made I have no issues with that scene. The fuller version (that includes the father using all of his sacrifices as a means of manipulating his son) makes it even more powerful.
Plus it was directed by Stanley Kramer who specialized in "message" movies but being a wealthy New York liberal meant he had built in blinders despite how progressive he was for the times.
Poitier's character was written to be the "ideal black man" who was a wealthy doctor with almost zero flaws so that audiences and the white parents in the movie would have to focus solely on race as the issue for why he and the white girl shouldn't be married.
Plus it was directed by Stanley Kramer who specialized in "message" movies but being a wealthy New York liberal meant he had built in blinders despite how progressive he was for the times.
Poitier's character was written to be the "ideal black man" who was a wealthy doctor with almost zero flaws so that audiences and the white parents in the movie would have to focus solely on race as the issue for why he and the white girl shouldn't be married.