Guess who is coming to dinner.... a movie with true grit
Today's television and movies are devoid of real social meaning, unless in the future people will see our time as one of violence, sex, selfishness, and ofcourse diversity by Mark Vogl
(conservative)
Thursday, February 3, 2011
There are only a few positive qualities of the huge number of television channels available. Those few relate to the channels which provide television and movies of a past era.
The movie Guess Who Is Coming Dinner was playing today. And if one had time to sit and watch, and really contemplate the issues and discussions which occurred amongst the separate characters, one realizes how significant that movie was. The strengths of the movie are the story line, the development of the concerns and issues related to the storyline, the casting and the relevance the movie had on its time and place.
I am a self-admitted conservative.
But I am also a man, a father, a citizen, and hopefully a child of my God. In my life I have watched the quality of entertainment decline. There are few, if any, real movies of quality. So much money and talent is spent on pure nonsense, of no value, and worse, setting an example of waste and chaos.
Was Guess Who is Coming to Dinner ahead of its time? Maybe, but only by days. It didn't really address the question of the results of mixed marriages. But it surely placed the issue front and center in a nation that proclaimed all men created equal.
But in that movie are other lessons. One truly significant discussion occurred between Sydney Portiere and his father. In that discussion that older male told his accomplished son of the sacrifices he made to insure the younger man had opportunity. And the younger male said that that was the duty of a father! It is a discussion which could have great impact in today's America.
Why can't today's actors, today's producers, today's movie makers learn from yesterday? Why can't movies promote patriotism, nationalism, Christian values, and point to the potential of humanity in the 21st Century. Can't we move away from the complaints, the false problems like global warming, Gay Rights, redistribution of wealth, and move towards the much more important questions of how humanity and America can regain the values and promise of an earlier day?
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