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Guess Who's Coming To Dinner Analysis

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Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner was a good movie. It covered all the basics in a movie. I feel like it was very well written and had a very well picked cast. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner without a doubt was groundbreaking for its time, through its portrayal of the relationship shared between a white woman and a black man. However, I feel like the movie is outdated. What the film captured was the social codes that existed around race and relationship and the tension that existed for both blacks and whites.
From a white male deciding the ultimate fate of the couple to limiting the number of intimate scenes between Houghton and Poitier, the movie was designed to comfort whites into the idea of interracial marriage. In present times, that’s not what happens, that style of movie has become obsolete. The movie was told through the white perspective and ultimately glorified white acceptance of these new social …show more content…

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