The dialogue in this film (especially towards the beginning) has this really stilted straightforward approach.
Everybody says they're lying in an exact way and then get an exact response back before moving on to the next scene.
It reminds me of Jack Webb"s Dragnet series; only with more emotion.
At first I thought this was going to take away from the movie especially with some of the heavy dialogue from the child actor. But he becomes less and less of a character as the film goes on. and the dialogue seems to expand out has conversations become more casual and fluid. Right around the time when the actual heavy subject-matter starts to come into hand and the film's message of anti-Semitism takes over.
A subject matter sparked by Gregory Peck's character (Philip Green) moving to New York City to start work on a magazine with his first official article revolving around the problems of anti-semitism.
Correlating with a romance between him and a young woman he meets while at a dinner function being hosted by his boss.
Most of the film dedicates it's time to Philip Green's writing / investigating of his subject while simultaneously getting involved in a more serious relationship with this young woman. With these two events becoming more problematic with each other as time goes on.
Philip green finds himself stuck in a rut and unable to write on the anti-Semitic material in any sort of meaningful way. The problem being that every talking point that can be made on the subject matter has already been done and that his article just be repetitive and ineffective in the greater scheme of things. That is until he comes upon the idea of pretending to be Jewish for a couple of weeks as to experience anti-Semitism first hand.
Doing this will cause an immense amount of stress with his soon-to-be wife and ultimately leading did the two of them breaking up over a combination of bickering, fighting and light racial intolerance.
It's through all of this that we get a true human drama of two people evolving each others character and ultimately learning many different things about not only the respect of others but of themselves.
It's a pretty solid movie overall. Good acting, relatively good dialogue (after the first 10 minutes) and livable cinematography.
It's a pretty basic film as camera movements go and the set-design is nothing special.
There were several other movies I was thinking about while watching this one. Thinking that they just recycled some older sets and refurnishing them for their own use.
But then that's not the point of the film. It's supposed to get you thinking about racial intolerance and how we as people react to each other.
Honestly I could fill up paragraphs here about how one tackles racist issues, the differences between racial issues. like anti-Semitism, hating black people or whatever.
But that's all been done a hundred times before by other better people and even I've talked about this crap on some other review.
So we don't need to repeat it all here.
The Film does a good enough job explaining its stance on the problems and even give some pretty good statements on ''light racism'' exposing people who are in a way; Upset by racist acts or something that makes them uncomfortable but ultimately not doing anything about it.'
You could argue the last 15 minutes of the film is pretty much dedicated to that.
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