Movie Review: Driving for Miss Daisy

Evalyn 2022-04-20 09:01:42

Judging from the title and the beginning, it feels like a light-hearted sketch, but it always feels a little incongruous. It was only when I saw the middle part that I realized that the whole story actually coincided with the black civil rights movement in the United States. However, the director did not make much fuss about this issue, but only showed the harmonious coexistence between different races through the nearly 20 years of mutual support between an ordinary Jewish old man and a black driver. It looks really warm.

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Driving Miss Daisy quotes

  • Boolie Werthan: Goodbye! Good luck!

    Boolie Werthan: [out of earshot] ... Good god.

  • Daisy Werthan: [Looking at map] Here. Here. You took the wrong turn at Opelika.

    Hoke Colburn: Well, now, you took it with me, Miss Daisy, and you got the map.