The new film that the readers watched together this week is this year’s Oscar-nominated "Green Book", which tells the story of a middle-aged uncle Tony and a black pianist known as Dr. Shelley on a road trip in the early 1960s in the United States. The pianist is elegant, stylish, well-educated, self-reliant, and strict. Because he was going to tour the southern hinterland, he hired his uncle to be his driver and bodyguard. The uncle is Italian, he is an old world, standard foodie, petty thieves, constant chatter, cigarettes never leave his hands, and swear words never leave his mouth. The film is based on real events. After watching the discussion in our group, I said that from the perspective of political correctness, this film is very Oscar-like, because it almost accounts for double political correctness. First, Shelly is not only a black man, but he is also Gay.
But aside from these factors other than political correctness, this movie still touches people's hearts. It is the warmth of human nature that the audience feels to accompany them along the way. Yes, it doesn't matter if any literary work is politically correct. The most feared thing is that it has no humanity. A journey changed two adults and made them friends for life. Such stories can always arouse our expectations and sense of strength in life.
But while watching this movie, I remembered another thing. It is the question of whether you need to get out of your psychological comfort zone when I saw everyone discussing on the Internet a few days ago. It may be that under the turbulent environment like this, more people are eager for stability in their hearts. It just so happens that in this movie, the pianist Shelly also faces such a situation. In the movie, there is a question that has always puzzled Tony. He asked several times why Shelley accepted this kind of performance contract. As a black pianist, he could stay in New York where he was more friendly and more friendly. Respect, he has his own luxurious comfort in the grand theater, warm, comfortable, safe, and served by servants. But he didn't stay in New York well, so he had to run south. In the United States in the 1960s, although there was no longer the KKK and the status of blacks had improved, the attitudes of the North and the South on this issue were quite different. Discrimination has always existed in the South, and accidentally getting involved in disputes against blacks can cause various situations, not to mention whether it is life-threatening, or at least it is impossible to complete the performance contract. So after receiving this task, Tony got a green book, which is the origin of the film's title. This is a travel brochure that specifically instructs blacks in the north how to travel in the southern hinterland, which hotels blacks can live in, and which bars blacks can go to.
Shelly had obviously read this travel guide. When Tony sent him to a hotel where blacks could stay, and he went to a hotel where whites lived, Tony saw the crude environment and wondered if he had sent him to the wrong place. , But Shelly said, this is it. Obviously, he knows very well what he will encounter. On the one hand, he is constantly suffering from various discriminations and difficulties from whites, and on the other hand, he is regarded as a monster by blacks. He was polite, principled, and self-cultivating in dealing with and coping with the problems encountered. Faced with all kinds of embarrassing situations, he was able to tolerate and never lost his attitude.
Until the end of the movie, the pianist’s companion told Tony that in order to change people’s minds, talent alone is not enough, but courage is needed. It can be said that great people are really great from the beginning. Of course Dr. Shelly could choose to stay in his psychological comfort zone, but he wanted to do something more meaningful. He went deep into the southern hinterland and played the piano in front of countless white listeners who were biased against his skin. He walked out of himself. At the same time as her psychological comfort zone, she also bravely walked into other people's psychological comfort zone and pulled them out. We can also understand this kind of offense as the courage of the artist.
This is the gap. After all, how wide your world is depends on you. Of course we can choose to stay in our psychological comfort zone forever. See what expectations you have in your life. But great people will take the initiative to choose to step out of their psychological comfort zone. This is their characteristic and their pattern. Of course, I said Xie Li is not blindly walking out of the psychological comfort zone. He not only has the ability, economic strength, and even political support. From a personal point of view, he has obviously done a lot of mental preparation and psychological construction for this. . Including when selecting the driver, he did Tony's background check and matched Tony at a glance, even willing to agree to Tony's price increase, which shows that his vision of seeing people is also very accurate. In later days, Tony also proved that his judgment was correct.
This really shows us the right way for a truly mature person to get out of their psychological comfort zone. Every time a young friend asks me, what do they need when they want to develop in Beijing? I said at least you must bring your dreams and your money. Because in my opinion, if a person, without mental or actual preparation, walks out of the psychological comfort zone with a fever of mind, and then encounters a bloody flow outside, when a situation occurs, he fled in a hurry and complained about others, that would be true. Called it. But there are many people who blindly walk out of their psychological comfort zone without the conditions and without ideological construction, and then fled back hastily when they are frustrated, complaining. This is called another Persuade.
Of course, Dr. Shelly is not a god-man, his identity dilemma is more complicated and difficult than others, so he is very introverted, can not easily open up his heart, life is also very heavy and tight, he is lonely and painful In terms of dealing with people, he is very cowardly, not as brave as he is in his career. He didn't want to change himself, and others didn't know how to change him until he met Tony. Tony is confident and enthusiastic, and often ignores his contempt and opposition, and insists on pulling him out of his "psychological comfort zone". I remembered an article on psychology that I once saw, saying that many introverts and extroverts become good friends because their heart actually wants someone who smashes the door and shuts them out of themselves. Pull out of the world. Tony’s character is extroverted and vulgar. Although he has many shortcomings, he is a kind, sincere and righteous person. In this movie, he keeps smashing the door outside Dr. Shelly’s door, dragging him out of the so-called People in the psychological comfort zone.
So in the end, their friendship has been maintained until the end of life.
There are many aspects of this film that can be discussed. I only talk about one that I am more interested in. Do you want to get out of your psychological comfort zone? I think as an adult, if you can, like Dr. Shelly, have the ability to make choices and go out. , But still decided to stay in, that was really a choice based on his own free will, this kind of talent can be called a psychological comfort zone. Instead of making an excuse for yourself, it seems that you don't want to go out. After all, you can't go out, so it should be called a prison.
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