My Favorite

Guess who” is my favor movies. It is a comedy movie about a race stereotype. The first time the movie released was 1967, but they also remake it in 2005 “Guess who is coming to Dinner”.  The name “Guess Who” reflects the story of the film. The movie covers a white man dating a black girl, instead of black man in relationship with white girl. The major stereotype character in the movie is that how the race differences develop stereotype based their race and color. I like the movie because it interprets the social problems in our society. Even though we live in democratic world, still many of us are learning to agree to see relationship between male and female with different backgrounds or accept any type of interracial relationship.  No doubt, every community or groups has their own beliefs, cultures, and their own way of life. Four or more decades ago it was hard to believe that a white man falls in love with black girl because of social conflicts between white and black people in America. When everyone hears this comedy story of “Guess who” the first thing comes to his/her mind is how parents of both sides feel about the relationship between their children. The movie attracts the audience and brings the attention of that interracial relationship and its affect to our society. Still many people believe that the man should marry a girl with similar culture in order to avoid any problems caused by culture clash. Some people like to stick on their own cultures, and they don’t want to make their mind open and learn other cultures. 

The interesting part of the movie was when the girl returns home with a new boyfriend. Her parents did not like her white fiancé because they were not expecting their daughter will fall in love with a white man. Although her father was not happy with her fiancé because of he is white, with the help of his personal attitude he tries to hide his feelings as much as he can. Before the father let the white man came in, he step out and start looking around incase his neighbors seen him. One major social factor that contributes to the appearance of today’s stereotype is how the society we live with have influences to our lives.  Stereotypes are typically formed on the basis of assumption that individuals received by the society. Stereotyping is challenging and makes hard for the people to understand one another. The father did not talk about why he is treating his daughter’s fiancé very unfair, but he always brings the white man’s story on the table. Many scholars are described in their books that the Black Americans are violent, poor, and uneducated. In the movie, the black American family is educated and rich, and they are celebrating wedding anniversary.

Even though “Guess who” produces and released in 21^st century, it is incredible that the stereotype character still persist and affect our social lives. After decades of these negative stereotype behaviors, the today society should chose what they want based on their desire. Our social condition and individual perceptions are controlled by what we do and how we do it. Today most people perceive things through their sense and develop a reality where they can function (S. Elaine 2008).

One thing stereotypes fulfill, the people should understand the affect of stereotyping in our society. What every individual is doing is something based on his/her culture or belief, which is stereotype character. So the people should not focus on what others are doing. The other stereotype fulfilling is does the person feel better by criticizing people because of their behavior, culture, and beliefs. Not necessarily all types of stereotyping are negative, some can be a positive stereotype based on how we see it or group it.

The movie “Guess who” examines the hardship of mixed race marriage; the movie was produced and released when interracial marriage was illegal in many places. The centre of the stereotype character in the film was when she came home with her fiancé and began introduction of her boyfriend to her father. All these negative stereotypes have long lasting affect to our young generation.