Guess Who's Coming to Dinner reaction

The film Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner is about an interracial couple Joanna Drayton and John Prentice. The marriage between Joanna and John is innocent and sweet. However, the perspective of their love is interesting to see, because Joanna never had any concerns about being in an interracial relationship because she was only concerned with being in love, she never once thought about John being a Black man. Whereas John was concerned with Joey’s parents' reactions and the ones of the world. 

The film also focuses on the differences in race discrepancies between Joanna and John's fathers. The fathers of the film were the biggest obstacle in the relationship, because they claimed it was irrational for their children to be together however it was all based on their differences in race, and it was damaging to the relationship that Joanna and John had formed all because they couldn’t put aside their differences to see the bigger picture that love is the only thing that matters. 

I also enjoyed how the film used comedic relief to sugar coat the original awkwardness of Joey and John’s relationship. The film shows that many characters make jokes to relieve the racial tension. My favorite comedic joke was spoken by Tilly when she was asked by Joanna “Who’s Coming to Dinner” and her response was Martin Luther King Jr. The film was well written in expressing the different perspectives of interracial dating especially from certain people in the Black community, because it’s seen as a questionable act to date outside of your race. A great example of that in the film is when John’s father makes the comment that he’s never made a mistake like that before as if choosing to love someone different than you is a mistake, which can translate years later into the black community in this day and age.