Saturday 22 November 2014

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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