Guess who's coming to Dinner
"You seem to be two beautiful people in love but with a pigmentation problem" says Spencer Tracy.Thats the jest of the story really.
Its a movie have seen twice now and cant help but write about it.Its a movie which has humour with a soul and thats the distinguising aspect .
Its a simple story of two people in love trying to justify their marriage to their respective set of parents since in US one never asks for permission to marry from one's parents(not now and not in 1960s..the time this movie is set in).Why do they need to justify you'd ask..well the thing is the guy is a black(Sidney Poitier...To Sir with Love guy) and the girl a "white"(some dame).And that is the crux of the story.
How the parents come around to the childeren's wishes inspite of the logic and practicality which governed the society then.No preaching , no harping on equal rights, nothing of that sort.Just dialogues from the heart - humorous and thought provoking.
Spencer Tracy is brilliant as the liberal thinking though uncomfortable with the decision dad.And now I know why Katherine Hepburn is famous - she is the perfect troubled mother - torn between practicality and love for her daughter.Both these characters though troubled never once go overboard and are just breathtaking as a couple.You see this movie and realise this is the (now lost) form of art called acting.
They aint make movies like this anymore..
"You seem to be two beautiful people in love but with a pigmentation problem" says Spencer Tracy.Thats the jest of the story really.
Its a movie have seen twice now and cant help but write about it.Its a movie which has humour with a soul and thats the distinguising aspect .
Its a simple story of two people in love trying to justify their marriage to their respective set of parents since in US one never asks for permission to marry from one's parents(not now and not in 1960s..the time this movie is set in).Why do they need to justify you'd ask..well the thing is the guy is a black(Sidney Poitier...To Sir with Love guy) and the girl a "white"(some dame).And that is the crux of the story.
How the parents come around to the childeren's wishes inspite of the logic and practicality which governed the society then.No preaching , no harping on equal rights, nothing of that sort.Just dialogues from the heart - humorous and thought provoking.
Spencer Tracy is brilliant as the liberal thinking though uncomfortable with the decision dad.And now I know why Katherine Hepburn is famous - she is the perfect troubled mother - torn between practicality and love for her daughter.Both these characters though troubled never once go overboard and are just breathtaking as a couple.You see this movie and realise this is the (now lost) form of art called acting.
They aint make movies like this anymore..
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