Five stars is purely a statement on the title issue. This movie is indeed relatively mediocre, but it is also rare in recent years-an award-winning film that can please ordinary people, imdb's 8.3 score is the highest among the best Oscars in the past 10 years, and even the previous number is higher than "Old Nowhere" Good movies like "Million Dollar Baby" will probably be squeezed out of some water in the future, but there is no doubt that it can't be as low as the previous two years.
The public's preference for it is easy to understand: anyway, it is a routine, not as good as the whole light comedy road film, which is happily tricked into the prize.
And this is also the reason why many scholars hate it: how can a black guy rush to deep south to shoot like this?
Academic hatred has a certain truth. The name "Green Book" is hard not to remind people of the real travel guide. It is difficult for scholars not to emphasize certain cult jim crow stories, such as the Mississippi Delta. Folk customs do not allow blacks to super-white cars, lest the black ghost car ash pollutes white cars...If this is the case, mainstream Western directors should not dare to shoot comedies.
However, the historical tour took place in 1962. At that time, racial discrimination was still prosperous. The travel guide "Green Book" had already been criticized by many intellectuals for guiding blacks to obey Jim Crow. In fact, after World War II and the golden period after the war, people's perceptions are indeed very different from the era before the publication of the "Green Book" (that is, the era when eugenics was still regarded as a scientific truth by the world).
I just have some information on hand, which is a poll conducted by Gallup in those years, just to list it.
In the United States as a whole, only 44% opposed segregation in transportation in 1942. By 1963, it had risen to 78%.
Of course, the South is more repellent to blacks than the North, but you can also see a significant improvement. Even the low-educated whites in the South who are least opposed to apartheid had an opposition rate of over 30% by 1963; the remaining groups of people The opposition rate was all over half. Even considering the lower education level of southerners (from the sample size, high schools are the most), it was no longer the atmosphere of the whole society defending isolation from the same enemy.
By the way, put an interesting comparison.
Would you like to eat in the same restaurant with black people in 1944?
In 1963, could you accept family members to bring black people back for dinner?
Perhaps it is better to understand that the low-educated southern whites, who are usually pioneers of racism, don't care so much about "blacks living in my community."
In terms of employment equality, perhaps the most obvious change in concept.
Then, what is the more tragic problem, or education.
And here is just choosing "should", probably thinking about "segregation and equality." If it is actually sending one's own children to racial integration school, the prospect of racial integration will be the southern will in the ten years after the Brown case. Down.
This is also in line with the basic logic of the racist concept at the time: compromise on those that have little to do with yourself, and refrain from those that have more to do with yourself. A small survey in Indianapolis found that if black and white children are asked whether they should receive the same education, 98% of people agree; but if the question is "Does it matter if a black child comes to school", then Only 79% of people don't care anymore.
According to these polls, do you think something dark had to happen in deep south in 1962?
Of course some people will take the famous murder of Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner as an example, but that incident is more of the South’s hatred of civil rights activists. At that time, there were a lot of conspiracy theories related to them. The background of this kind of music tour is very different.
Even college students who went south to preach during the Civil Rights Movement did not necessarily see the "darkness of the deep south". Mr. Xu Zhuoyun participated in the "Freedom Train" when he was studying in the United States. Activities are dangerous".
Having said that, this movie really needs to capture the details, and there are indeed a lot of bugs.
For example, "Sunset Town" was originally a concept more of the North (the author of the "Green Book" also addressed this point, he claimed at the time that it was safe in the South, because the South has a sign for banning black people), and the movie used it , But moved to Mississippi.
Immediately after a bug, if you provoke the police in a small town in Mississippi, calling RFK should be counterproductive. Not to mention the sheriff’s authority in such a small town, the governor at that time was also a die-hard racist. For this reason, I have also confronted RFK tit for tat, which is a big failure in terms of logic and history.
However, these bugs do not seem to be the reason why scholars criticize it from the three perspectives.
By the way, it is too much to directly state that Dr. Shirley is gay (this is just outside speculation), although it is from the PC, no one said this.
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