Is there tolerance in
twenty-first century?
This
week I've seen a French movie which is titled Qu'est-ce qu'on a
fait au Bon Dieu? And the international title is "Serial
(Bad) Weddings". This
movie's received quite a lot of rave, but not worldwide, I'll write
some detail regarding it.
About
what is this movie? The plot is about a slightly stuffy match has
four daughters and, so far, three of them've puzzled their parents
because they've wedded with men from other cultures who are believers
of totally different religious: one of them is Muslim, the other is
Jew and and the third is Chinese man. Multicultural family's simple
dinner can turn into the tensest situation. The families differ in
outlooks, prejudices until... consumed meals. It seems that
parents've started to become used to have that family and live in
hope that the the youngest daughter won't disappoint them. That's
too much when Laure presents them her fiancé
who is from Ivory Coast.
Nnowadays,
more and more families are founding in such situation due to
globalisation, one of complex social terms which implies many changes
in our lifes. Currently, it seems that in 21century, we've overcome
the racism, intolerance, prejudices and we're open-minded, without
exception. But, in fact, we still demonstrate our bias against other
religions or cultures and, sometimes, we aren't conscious of it.
Undoubtedly, the contact with other cultures changes our attitude
towards foreigns and not only. Although, some people considers that
travelling not always broaden our outlook or otherwise it can makes
us intolerant one more time. After coexist with some foreign, we can
claim that we can't and won't can accept their style of life or
attitude.
I've
mention that the movie hasn't gotten everywhere a good reviews. It's
more, in UK and US cinema-goers won't have a change to seem it. Due
to film distributors who consider that it foments stereotypes instead
fight with them.
And
you, do you think that we've overcome prejudices towards other people
who differ in your ideas, world view...?
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