A movie that taught me a lot about interracial couples, and also really interested me at the same time, was Lakeview Terrace. In the movie an interracial couple, consisting of a white man and black woman, moves into a house next to a black man. They seem very much in love and act like an everyday ordinary couple. I know this is 100 percent wrong, but I think I used to subconsiously look down on interracial couples. Even though this was just a movie, it made me have more respect for these types of couples. Anyway the black man in the movie is out to get this couple. Throughout the movie he uses various antics to get them out. You don't know why he hates them so much until the end of the movie. You find out that the man's wife died in a car accident while being out with a white man she was having an affair with. This bother's the man so much that he tries to kill this couple, and gets killed himself instead. This is one demonstration of how much problems interracial couples go through. I guess it's worth it though if you really love the person that much.
here's a link for the plot summary of the movie:
2 comments:
Mike--Maybe not for this topic, but in general you need to now incorporate personal connections to what you read (as we discussed in class today). Also, add related content from the web.
Mike, you make a good point because I wondered the same exact thing while I was reading the book. You know I've known women who have been through marriages that were destroyed because their husbands beat them, but they never had a problem leaving. It's almost like being scared though because sometimes people are too scared to let go of something they've had or been used to for so long.
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