Final Project

Final Project

Guess who's coming for Dinner?

Few Hollywood directors have dared to tell stories that generate profound reflections on human relationships and uncomfortable controversial issues, social taboos. Stanley Kramer was one of them, since throughout his filmography as a director, with films like “Fugue in chains”, “Inherit the Wind” or “Judgment at Nuremberg”, dived by diverse and controversial issues.

The article as well as the movie shows that the insight of a father can be very helpful but they should also let their children grow and make their own decision. I like the fact that the father raises her daughter as color blind but for him to be mad at her when she bring an African American guy at home show that he's a hypocrite.

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner was released in the U.S. in 1967 when the civil rights struggle shook America. Despite the racial violence run rampant outside the cinema at the time of release, this romantic comedy will solve everything with a lot of talk. Some ideas underpin the plot so straightforward as that is black with impeccable resumes in the U.S., there are racist white liberals and blacks there; racism surfaces in extreme situations in the best families, some blacks do not want to integrate with whites and break taboos is for the strong and very passionate.

John (Sidney Poitier) and Joanna (Katharine Hougthon) met during a trip, soon fell in love irrevocably and now want to get married as soon as possible. She wants to introduce her new boyfriend to parents and talk to them about the idea of marriage. Joanna is a young and youthful and John is an experienced doctor with impressive resume. The girl's parents are educated, successful and liberals. In the way the film starts, looks like we will attend a nice friendly sitcom, but it is not so: it is not a comedy, although it is not a tear drama. What is presented is a friendly but tense meeting of educated people who are going to discuss, under a very important issue in their lives: racial prejudice®.

Despite all the countless virtues of Prentice, when he was introduced to the parents of Joey, it causes a noticeable shock to the mother (here played by notorious Katharine Hepburn), and especially his father (Spencer Tracy), an aged man, who despite taking itself to liberalism and equality of persons, and preaching during the life thousand and thousand humanitarian principles, he sees before him a situation he never thought he would face: his daughter falling in love with a black.

Kramer, masterfully, exposes us something very common in companies, which are highly visible in social movements, but racism is deeply rooted in their activities, making themselves prime examples of hypocrisy. They protests to show to the public, but deep down, they do not accept the principles. The mother, seeing the happiness of his daughter, had to accept. The old man, however, is faced with his principles, and he had to decide in a few hours whether or not to ...