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Jan 21, 2018
I saw this movie as a child, and I had a vaguely nice feeling about it and about Audrey Hepburn. It does not stand up when viewed again as an adult. The demeaning and racist portrayal of Holly Golightly's upstairs neighbour disgusted me and spoiled the whole experience. This makes me realize how much I must have been used to racist stereotypes not to even have noticed them when I first saw the movie. No one else seems to mention the racism, so it also tells me that others are fine with stereotypical depictions of other races. All in all, shallow and sad. I read the original story by Truman Capote after another viewer recommended it over the movie. It is just as shallow.