Guess Who's Coming To Dinner Reflection

 Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner

“Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner” by Stanley Kramer was a film produced in 1976. This film is centered and focused on racism in the United States of America during the Civil Rights Movement. Because of the time frame when this movie was released, Kramer was praised for showing the world what interracial couples look like and their lives. 

The film is about the characters named John and Christina Drayton and their daughter Joey. They find out that Joey is engaged to a young black man. His name is Dr. John Prentice. This concerns John because he knows this will put a damper on the way society views them and a bad reputation under their last name. He does not want his daughter to be frowned upon by society for falling in love with a black man. 

The couple received plenty of discriminatory comments and actions directed towards them. One example shown in the film is when the couple goes to a restaurant. The waiter refuses to serve them. Another example is when they go to check into a hotel and the hotel clerk refuses to give them a room. This is all because of a white woman being accompanied by her significant other who is a black man and that did not fit into society’s expectations and norms. 

No matter what John or anyone else thought, they were getting married and starting a family either way. Discrimination was not going to stop them. Overtime, the couple powers through all of the negative comments and struggles made for them and were supported by their loved ones. 

Although I was not in class the day we watched this movie and talked with our peers, I still found this film extremely impressive and informative. It does a great job showing that being racist does not do anything good for the world besides separate everyone, especially from the person/people you may love.