akitagodfathers Review of The Lunch Date

The Lunch Date (1989)

Do the details mean something? Well though movie.

[9/10 · 1 March 2019]

An old lady, who is rushing to get the train bumped into a black man and dropped her stuff. In the train home, after missing the train she realizes that she has lost her wallet. With no choice, she decides to kill time in a restaurant buying a cheap salad, but someone is in her seat.... The old lady attitude towards the typical poor black men changes during the movie. Although, it is difficult to tell that in the first time, the film is well planed to tell those emotional changes. In the beginning, you don't know what she thinks about those typical poor men. She just pass through one of them staring at him. Later however, you can observe that she stares at a typical black man with a disgusting face. It is because she thinks that the black man she bumped into, stole her wallet and she is angry in general towards those typical poor black man. Therefore, when the black man in the restaurant is eating the salad, she believes she is a victim again and aggressively reacts and eats it without asking. When this black man buys her a coffee she is surprised but not pleased. She does not drink it all because she has not forgiven the incident of her wallet. However, the old lady changes her mind completely after coming back to the restaurant and realizing that she was not eating her salad but the man's. The lady now knows that stereotypes mean nothing. Even more, she is ashamed of her acts and cannot stop laughing at her actions and biases. The last scene where she passes through a man begging for money shows that she has changed her mind because if she has not, she would be staring at this man with a disgusting face such as she did in the beginning. Again, is a well thought short film