We Must Humble Ourselves

I thoroughly enjoyed the film we watched in class on Tuesday, and as I went back to my dorm room had to share it with my friends, because we love to laugh. However not only did I favor this short film because it made me laugh. For me, the message of interactions between different social classes, made me think more of the filmmakers intentions besides providing humor to the audience. The short film "Lunch Date" by Adam Davidson uses comic techniques to portray the truth that in normal settings members of different social classes would rarely interact, let alone share lunch with one another. I believe that the filmmaker purposely incorporated various homeless people throughout the beginning to foreshadow his message that would later be concluded. He wanted his audience to focus on the homeless people and contrast them to the wealthy woman who ignores them all together. As the woman buys her salad, and returns to the much less fortunate man eating it, we can draw another contrast. When she believes the man stole her salad, she becomes very defensive and tries to reclaim it. However, we see when she steals a bite, the man has no reaction but instead accepts kindly and even buys her a cup of coffee. This man gives much more with much less. So the question that enters my mind is this; is the filmmaker trying to propose that by having less we become humble, and by being humble we are inclined to do more? Matthew 23:12 states that "Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted." In the context of this short film, when the wealthy lady realizes she has been mistaken, she is humbled. However the man who is already humble, shows love. I realized as I re-watched "The Lunch Date," that we did not finish the film in its entirety. And as I watched the remainder of the film, my enjoyment lessened. At the end there is a homeless man asking for money for food, and the wealthy lady who has just been humbled, once again ignores his presence. The author was once again is highlighting the standpoint of the wealthy in the social ranking, and their little concern for anyone besides themselves. I believe this was the key moment of the film; when the audience expects a change of heart in the wealthy woman, but doesn't receive it.