Sidney Poitier's timeless performance keeps the 1967 film about a mixed-race couple relevant today; so does its personal resonance for so many.
.” “He doesn’t have any tensions in him, he knows what he believes and what he thinks is right and why and where he’s going.”
Viewed in 2022, the film feels dated in precisely the ways you would imagine, from the terminology to the climax, in which the white patriarch delivers his blessing, and everyone tears up in gratitude. But it remains a movie that resonates with me because something similar happened in my family, with a very different ending.
My grandfather was not exactly Spencer Tracy’s liberal judge, but he had raised three children who worked, in different ways, for the civil rights movement, and it shocked me to realize he was acting exactly the way I had been taught was wrong. It was my first encounter with the kind of bigotry I had only seen portrayed on screen.
“I didn’t agonize over the fact that my father rejected my marriage,” she said. “My dad loved Kassim until I told him we were getting married, and then he turned very ugly. I just thought, ‘That’s your loss’ and walked out. I know it was hard on Mom, but I wanted to be with Kassim.” It’s Poitier who radiates as the mesmerizing center of the story, watchful but certain of himself as everyone else flutters around in various states of shock and fear and prejudice. Poitier gives John an exquisite balance of worldliness and hope: He is not so much allowing the Draytons to make the final decision as forcing them to confront who they really are.
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