DIRECTOR'S CUT: 7 Keys to Overcoming Prejudice in PHILADELPHIA
How can you overcome your own prejudices and biases? How can you learn to understand and love people with different life experiences than you?
Licensed therapist Jonathan Decker and filmmaker Alan Seawright discuss seven tips to help you overcome prejudice, using examples from the film Philadelphia. They take a look at Denzel Washington's character in this movie, and how he moves from homophobia to building a genuine friendship with Tom Hanks' character, a gay man dying of AIDS.
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What's wild is the stuff that Denzel's character says in the movie, people used to say about African Americans.
I grew up in a very homophobic. I remember when my brother came out. He had moved to NYC (back in the 70's) He wrote to my mom and I remember she cried. I however always welcomed him and his partner. After the passing of his first one after 20+ years, his second was also warmly welcomed by my family. It wasn't until recently I found out the rest of our siblings and our parents hadn't. So yes this movie is important to me. The fear of AIDS was very real and the denial of having homosexuality in the family was something I lived.