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Interracial Couple

posted 9 years ago by communionsong
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The movie was made in 2014 and I guess since Alex and Ruth lived in the apartment for 40 years, that would be approximately 1974 they married and moved into the apartment. When Alex hired Ruth to be a nude model, wasn't he taking a risk? I mean a black man hiring a white woman to pose for him naked?

This was a sweet movie and I so appreciated seeing a long-married couple still in love with each other. Morgan and Diane played off each other well. Cynthia Nixon's performance was amazing...but I so wanted to kick her butt when she was so disrespectful to her Aunt and Uncle in the end.

The dog and terrorist sub-plots were distracting.

I find it difficult to see why anyone would want to make a movie about a married couple experiencing the hassles of bidding-wars and apartment hunting.

[–] TxMike 9 years ago

Did it ever occur to you that this movie features two characters who are just a couple married for a long time? There is no value added in trying to label it as an "interracial" couple.

When are people going to quit focusing on skin color and imagine obstacles it may be creating?

..*.. TxMike ..*..
Take a risk, Take a chance, Make a change. Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway

[–] communionsong 9 years ago

Unfortunately, you cannot separate the color of the skin. He was black/she was white...that is what I saw and that is what the movie portrayed.

[–] ebwalkerjr 9 years ago

The movie portrayed an old couple trying to sell an apartment...other than the flashback with the mom in the ice cream shop, race wasn't mentioned by the leads. If all you can get out of the movie is an interracial couple, you're missing a pretty good love story.

[–] communionsong 9 years ago

No, I totally got the love story. It was sweet and the two leads played off each other very well. But the fact is, she was white and he was black and that was how the two main leads were portrayed. If she had been Asian, then it would have been about a black man and an Asian women who fell in love and married.

[–] rosiesgrand 9 years ago

This was a sweet little story about a long married, loving couple facing life issues (including the dog). If someone only sees the lead characters as an interracial couple they wasted their time and missed some very good performances.

[–] communionsong 8 years ago

But the fact remains...one what black and the other white...you simply cannot overlook that.

[–] Lenkopenko 8 years ago

Why not? Maybe in the 70s when they started dating it might've been an issue (to whom, I do not know, because the 70s were pretty liberal), but today? Times change, mate.

Not every story has to be a political statement.
Although you could take this as one. Them not caring about being an "interracial couple" and nobody else caring as well.

[–] Information-Police (4896) 3 years ago

It was NY City, not Mississippi.

[–] Popcorngal (4937) 2 years ago

NY was / is racist to some extent as well. Prejudice was hinted early in the film, when the neighbor carrying groceries ignored the husband when he spoke.