Wednesday, September 14, 2016

The Lunch Date


In Tuesday’s class session, we began to discuss what a comedy truly is.  As we compared and contrasted tragedies and comedies, it started to become clear to me that I enjoyed comedies much more.  The message that tragedies send are often times much stronger and stick out more, but comedies are much easier to swallow and you are able to relax and laugh.  For example, we watched the short film The Lunch Date.  In the film, a white woman is walking through grand central station and drops her purse.  Nearly everything that is inside her purse falls out onto the ground.  An African American man runs over and tries to help the white woman pick everything up.  She is very hesitant and tries to shoo him away several times.  This is a significant part of the short film because of the time period that it is set in.  During the 50s and 60s lots of discrimination and segregation took place.  It was unusually for a black person and white person to be so closely associated.  Later in the film we see the woman buy a salad, which she actually does not have enough money for.  When she comes back to the table to sit down, there is a black man eating her salad that appears to be low to middle class.  I found this ironic because many people would assume it to be the other way around.  It turns out that she was eating the wrong salad and in the wrong booth.  Also, the black man bought her a cup of coffee before he left.  This shows that even though he appeared to be mean and selfish that he was actually the one that was sharing. 

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