Green Book

[REVIEW] Movie Green Book: Deserving to win the Best Movie Oscar!

It's been a long time since there's an Oscar Best Picture that feels like and satisfied like the Green Book. Perhaps with many critics as well as the winning audience of Green Book is not convinced.

It is easy to understand because the Green Book does not have the glittering beauty like Rome, the old theme, the expression is also nothing new or impressive in art tactics. So what makes the Academy award the Best Movie to Green Book?

Green Book: worthy of the Best Movie Oscar

For a long time, films often built images of white bosses and black people as slaves. In contrast, Green Book built a relationship that seemed paradoxical. Toney Lip - the white man is the driver of the black man Don Shirley - a rich and famous pianist.

That is the unique difference of Green Book when placing characters and viewers standing on the other side, which we still consider to be the opposition. When we put ourselves in the position of others, we will see aspects that we may still be misunderstanding. When we put ourselves in the shoes of others, we will see ourselves.

“Do you know where you are? Is geography really important? If I was at a bar in your neighborhood, would the conversation be different? ”

We still often classify people by geography, region, color, or gender. We often think of ourselves as rich people, low self-esteem or low self-esteem. Then we are just like Tony always proud of the origin of his position, like Don always inferiority because of skin color, gender or his true self.

It is that which creates the walls of prejudice that separate us from others. But the Green Book shows a new perspective on racism or gender discrimination. The problem is not the difference but the perception that is what separates people.

The driver Toney still mistakenly thinks he is white, but on a journey across the US he realizes that he is actually "blacker" than the pianist Don. Don also admits that only white people discriminate against black people, but not the people of the same skin color with him also have a look of scrutiny just because he is different from them, only because he wears a vest with a private driver. and they are just farmers working in the fields.

That's when Toney realized that:

“God, I'm even darker than you. As for me, I sit on the throne and go around the world performing concerts for the rich. I live on the street. He sat on the throne. So yes, my world is darker than that of. "

And now Don realized that he was actually whiter than the white Toney:

"That's right, I live in the castle, Tony! Alone. And rich white people paid me to play the piano for them because it made them feel cultural. But as soon as I walked down that stage, I was just another black guy to them. Because that's their true culture. And I endure it alone because I'm not accepted by people like myself. Because I'm not like them. So, if I'm not black and I'm not white and I'm not male enough, tell me, Tony, what am I? ”

Only through the conversation between Tony and Don on the night bus, it seems that the big issues of equality have been solved. Tony is actually not an educated, upscale white man like Don. And Don did not really understand and care about the life, culture or music of people of the same color as him. They gradually realize who they really are and have changed their views about others.

From the lines to the action in the movie Green Book are full of fables. From exploiting small details like the fact that Tony threw 2 cups that 2 black plumber was drinking was enough to see Tony's stigma, like Don recognizing the gaze of peasants of the same color. skin with yourself in the field; or just the details of Toney picking up a green stone on the ground is enough to tell how the white people invaded. Or the relationship "crossing the road" of Tony with the other two members of the band Don Shirley Trio is also an interesting metaphor of political relationships.

“The last show. The cold war is over. Armistice. ”

It was a conversation between a Russian - Don's band member, and Toney an American. Two cars on the journey across the US ten thousand miles also see the full meaning. It seems the whole world has appeared in the movie Green Book. White skin, black skin, yellow skin, Europe, America, Africa, Nazi Germany and Israel, World War II and Cold War, etc.

World history as well as the United States has glided on Toney and Don's journey. Green Book excelled in character building. From the supporting characters the Indian man working as a maid for Don, the Asian character ch

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