Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

71Worth an evening.

Liberal talk was easy until the man she means to marry sat down.

The review

A white woman brings her Black fiancé home to liberal parents for one evening. He will not marry her unless they bless it. He is a doctor with a life already underway. Their politics have been easy. The fact is now at the table, and the evening is long enough to show the difference between a sentence they liked and a marriage they would have to live next to. It is a 1967 argument, played by stars, and some of the talk is stiff.

I still think the evening is worth sitting through. He treats their blessing as something the marriage needs, not as a hurdle to slip while the parents catch up. Stay for the condition he set. If the parents' yes does not matter to the people watching with you, you are watching a different movie than the one he is in.

Journal

Keep Guess Who's Coming to Dinner in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 71. Yours can differ.

The glance

Temperance is the thin one.

Is appetite shown and then put down, or are you being trained to want the next one?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

To Kill a Mockingbird

81 instead of 71

To Kill a Mockingbird is still a drama film, and it scores 81 instead of 71. What you gain is courage: He goes, knowing.

The eight

7
Industry
He is a doctor, and he still will not marry without their blessing.
8
Household
He will not marry her unless her parents bless it at their own table.
7
Piety
A blessing is the condition, so conscience has to survive the dinner.
7
Courage
They put the marriage in front of parents whose politics were only talk.
7
Republic
A 1967 color line gets personal at one table, where the habit has a name.
6
Temperance
He will not grab the marriage and run; he waits to be told yes.
8
Truth
Easy opinions meet the fact of him, and the blessing has to be real.
7
Stewardship
What the evening can leave is a marriage the parents were willing to bless.

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Black Panther

71Worth an evening.

A nation owes the people it hid from. A king still has to keep the nation.

The review

Killmonger is not a twist. He is what happens when a nation saves itself and leaves a child in the other place. T'Challa's answer is not to hand him the weapons. It is to stop pretending the border was innocent, and still not to burn the country down to pay for it.

Watch the argument, not only the suit. A house can ask the same question at a smaller size: whom did we leave outside, and what will we open without giving the place away.