Congratulations to "Green Book" for winning the Oscar for Best Picture! ! ! ! Although there are many controversies in this Oscar, the victory of "Green Book" is a victory of a good story!
If you have a friend who pays attention to the Oscars, you will surely find that the Oscars have been controversial in recent years. If a bad wind is hanging over this world-class film festival, it is political correctness.
Since the award of the best film to "Moonlight Boy" due to black protests a few years ago, the political nature of this film festival is far greater than the art itself. Last year, "Three Billboards" with the most perfect script structure lost to "Escape from Death" by a black director, and because of the feminist movement and the same-sex equality movement, the best foreign language film was awarded to the mediocre "ordinary woman" ".
Many fans joked that it seems that this year’s Oscar should be "Black Panther".
However, the movie I want to recommend today is a very politically correct movie. I do not like black movies like "Help" and "Hidden Characters". In the case of black rights protection, the director is only using incitement to express, and this "Green Book" is obviously much more advanced.
"Green Book" is adapted from real events, and the story is very simple. A white man was a driver for a black pianist and escorted each other to tour performances. The two experienced many events along the way and established a deep relationship. On the surface, this is a simple road movie, and what I see is how the director plays different things in such a patterned story.
Let’s analyze it from the script level. First of all, the movie has two very contrasting protagonists. Tony is a white man at the bottom, and Don is a black man at the top, who became an employment relationship in a certain age. This kind of dual main role is also rare in the history of movies, and it is full of fun in itself. The director set up two contradictions for the two characters, one is black and white contradictions, and the other is class contradictions.
Let’s take a look at the characters first. When Tony appeared on the stage, the director arranged three plots for him. The first plot was Tony stealing the hat of a rich businessman, showing Tony’s contempt for the upper-class people and playing the rich businessman like a fool (before this plot) There is also a Tony looking at the lens of the class host flattering the rich businessman, Tony shows a disdainful expression). The second episode is that Tony beats the customer brutally (the customer just said if you know who I am), at that moment Tony used violence to show his hatred and hatred of the upper-class people. In the third episode, when he returned home, Tony threw the water glass that the black man had drunk into the trash can. With these three plots, the character immediately stood up.
On the other side, Don used the Grand Theater before his debut, with magnificent interior decoration and various artistic props. And when he appeared on the stage, he was dressed extremely luxuriously, deliberately sitting in the position of the throne symbol, forming a picture of upper and lower levels with Tony. Don asked Tony to be responsible for the valet service in addition to the driver. However, Tony refused to maintain the elegance of the upper class.
At this time, it can be found that among the two characters, Tony is very three-dimensional, while Don is full of mystery. Therefore, the real core figure of the two contradictions in the text setting is Don.
And how did the director make the two people contradict each other in this process, and then achieve reconciliation with each other? The difference in class is still used, and the class is different, so the living environment and upbringing are also different. Don thinks the name of tony is too difficult to read, so I suggest changing to a simple name, which will make it easier to get the recognition of the mainstream public. Don prohibits Tony from stealing things and orders Tony to return. These are the jokes on the journey, but in fact they are the contradiction between the two classes.
The key to a real reconciliation between the two is not KFC, but Tony's letter. I remember Tony mentioned Don for the first time in the letter, he thought Don looked very lonely. The letter should have been written by Tony to his wife. Why did the director mention Don in the letter? Because it is very simple, because Don will be involved in the writing of the letter next. So this letter after letter has actually become an important prop for the two people to warm up their feelings.
At this time, the director slowly let the audience follow Tony and feel the racially discriminatory social environment of that era time and time again, and at the same time step by step reveals the true face behind Don's mystery.
As the true core character of the movie, Don is full of complexity and tragedy. With his extraordinary musical talent, he is appreciated by the upper class of white people. He chooses to tour to perform in order to be recognized in the mainstream society. From another perspective, what he has done from beginning to end is to cater to white society. However, no matter how hard he works, no matter how elegant he is, he is still marginalized in white society. For blacks, he is full of compassion, but he seems to be another world. No matter which world he is in, he is the one who is isolated.
At the end of the story is Don's reconciliation. This reconciliation is not only a reconciliation with Tony, but also with himself and the world. Two scenes, one is Don and Tony go to a black bar. This is the second time Don gets along with black people. This time he relaxes his mind and plays wonderful music on the spot, which is applauded by black compatriots. He accepted himself. In the other scene, he finally spent Christmas at home alone, holding the stone left by Tony, and plucking up the courage to come to Tony's house. At this moment, he accepted the world.
As a result, the end of the story perfectly resolved the two contradictions at the beginning, leaving a warm ending.
The film did not focus on social injustice and black people's complaints like the previous black films, but left the problem with the black people themselves, and let the black people face and solve the problems themselves. Combined with the current politically correct context, how rare this expression is.
Finally, I have to talk about some small problems in the movie itself. First, I think the scene of Comrade Don is very redundant and deliberate. The other is the Green Paper, which is the core prop of the movie. The number of appearances and importance is far less than that of letters, which is very strange.
This year is the Oscar year. There are not too many surprises from the nominated films, but if it is based on political correctness, I would prefer the best film to be awarded to the "Green Book" to make political correctness successful. It is also a skill.
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