"Green Book" is a rare road film. The plot from the beginning to the end of the film is very compact, without redundant plots. The film tells the story of a white driver driving a black doctor musician along the way. Of course, the journey is very difficult. Just like Journey to the West, Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali) and Tony Lip (Viggo Mortensen) have gone through nine or eighty One difficulty, finally reunion at Christmas.
"The Green Book" was once a real black travel guide in history. In 1962, the white supremacy movement once again set off a small climax in the United States. The black postman Victor Hugo Green wrote a pamphlet that pointed out which hotels and restaurants allowed black people to stay and eat. The Green in the booklet's name "Green Book" is taken from Green, and it seems to adopt the meaning of green symbolizing unobstructedness.
The two male protagonists of the movie "Green Book" drove to the southern United States with this green book. A male protagonist is the famous black musician Don Shelly, and the other is Tony Lipp, a white veteran who is in a nightclub, was called to be Don's driver. The contrast between skin color and cultural accomplishment naturally produces some wonderful chemical reactions during the journey.
Tony Lip is a goofy bastard who works as a waiter in a nightclub. This nightclub will be closed for a few months for some reason, but the rent and living expenses that Tony has to pay will not be cancelled, so his top priority is to find another job to fill the vacancies in the past few months.
At this point, a black pianist named Don Shelly offered to hire Tony. Tang Xueli is about to start an eight-week southbound tour, but at that time the discrimination against blacks in the South was very serious, so Tony became Tang Xueli's driver and bodyguard. Along the way, the two different personalities caused a lot of contradictions between them. At the same time, the unfair treatment Tang Xueli suffered in the South also made Tony abhorrent to racial discrimination.
When Greentown first started, there were a lot of disharmony between the more secular white and gentleman black doctors:
drivers use vulgar words, but doctors pay attention to wording
drivers smoke crazy, but doctors are not used to the smell of tobacco
Kentucky eats At KFC, the driver let the doctor who has never eaten fried chicken eat fried chicken for the first time in his life. Dr.
taught the driver how to write letters to his lover elegantly and romantically. The original plain text, later polished poetic
Don Shelley Originally lived alone in his castle, accompanied by a housekeeper. He was discriminated against by the white world and excluded by the black ethnic group. He is his own king only when he plays the piano. However, on the stage, it is still a nigger in the eyes of white people. He left the north and went south to tour, out of his comfort zone, and went to the southern region where racial discrimination was severe, just to break racial prejudice and let blacks have the same rights as whites. This is a kind of courage.
However, behind this, he still hides his lack of identity. "If I am neither white enough, nor black enough, nor man enough, then tell me Tony, who am I?"
Because of the difference in the growth environment, Don Shelly also doesn't understand the ethnic compatriots, he is not familiar with them He loves music, and the black people faced a stranger like Tang, and they could only give him confusion. Tang couldn't blend into it like the black people he saw--except for the hearty performance in the Orange Bird Restaurant.
Around Christmas, he returned to the deserted residence like a palace. He is the king of music, but he is also an orphan forgotten by the world. On the way home, Tony said to him: "There are lonely people everywhere in this world who are afraid to take the first step."
He thought of this sentence and took the initiative to take that step. A bottle of red wine knocked on the door of Tony's house. Only then did he become a true warrior.
As said in the film, "Only talent is not enough, only courage can change people's hearts." Since he doesn't consider your feelings, what can you do?Must take care of his emotions? Forbearance made an inch of progress for a while, taking a step back and getting stronger. Violence can't win you anything, but cowardice is always a loser. Only by confronting the malice of life head-on can malice be overcome.
looks like a friendly white man, but when he encounters actual problems, he takes a big turn. The driver and the doctor went south to a luxurious manor. The owner of the manor welcomed the musicians politely. After the performance, Tang wanted to use the bathroom. The owner of the manor refused to let him use the bathroom for the guests, and only allowed him to use a simple shed built in the yard. Because at that time in the South and before the liberation of serfs, blacks could not use the same toilet as whites. Even if Tang is a noble musician and has performed twice in the White House, it is no exception.
Another contrast example comes from a high-end restaurant in Birmingham. The restaurant invited Tang to perform. When the restaurant manager saw Tang, his mouth was full of beautiful words, but the lounge arranged for Tang was a small storage room, and Tang was not allowed to dine in the restaurant because the restaurant’s The rule is not to accept blacks.
The most memorable clip is the scene where their car broke down on the southern country road and looked at each other with the slaves working in the fields. There was a silent but loud noise. In a certain area in the south, because the car broke down, Tony parked the car next to a manor. At this time, a group of black workers working in the farmland in the manor saw Shelly sitting in the car and a white driver ( Tony) was repairing a car and serving a black man. They stopped their farm work one after another, looking at Shelly and Tony with an incredible look.
I think Dr. Shirley’s inner feelings are very complicated at this time, but his goal is firm, that is, to use his behavior to prove that blacks can also become truly noble people. He is for this group of blacks. Compatriots fight for their due rights, instead of doing some humble and humble work all their lives.
In addition, what Jinggege wants to emphasize is that the police appeared three times in the movie, and each time was a different performance and vivid image.
The first time Don was arrested for homosexuality, Tony was not allowed to bribe the police to get away. The second time for
was because the police discriminated against Tang and spoke out against Tony. Tony attacked the police in rage. Tang called the then U.S. Attorney General Bobby Kennedy and rescued the two. Even Tang like this cannot avoid being discriminated against.
for the third time on their snowy road back to New York, another police car honked its horn. TONY said badly, "It's the damn policeman again", and then said to the policeman with a very hostile tone, "What's the matter?" The plot reversed. This time the policeman came to remind them that the tire was broken. thing. Moreover, before the police left, he not only said "merry chrismas" to Tony, he also leaned into the car window and said to the doctor. The doctor's expression was obviously a little surprised and at a loss.
It is not about firing shots to drive away prejudice, and it is not about fists to win respect. I would rather turn back in order to go to the toilet, be willing to go on strike for a meal, being bullied is not regarded as an insult but a test, and being favored is not regarded as an honor but a shame. The black slave who worked in the south saw him on the side of the road as well dressed as a prophecy. A high-end restaurant, a spacious toilet, and a high-end fitting room could not accommodate things, but they were loaded into a green carriage and bravely hit the road.
The people on the road are the loneliest. As a road comedy, this is the real victory of "Green Book". Don Shelly was no longer alone, and Tony gave him a warm hug. This is the answer given to us at the end of the Green Book. Do you judges have any different opinions on the movie "Green Book"? Welcome to leave a message in the comment area to discuss.
