I accidentally knew something before watching the movie, which made the movie watching process weird. For example, I learned that Don Shelly’s family was not consulted by the screenwriter. This is the creation of two white brothers, Farrey and Vallelonga, because Farrey thought, “Shelly has no living family members anymore. NS".
However, Shelly’s family is real. They say that the movie is "a simphony of lies" and "100% wrong." The first is to completely exaggerate the relationship between Tony and Shelly. The two are actually employees and employers, not lifelong friends. At the same time, Shelly is not as alienated from his own race as in the movie, and feels unfamiliar with what happened to them. He was a friend of Martin Luther King, and was active in various civil rights movements, including the Selma Parade in 1965. He has always been very close to his family. In the 1960s when the movie took place, Shelly had to call his three living brothers almost every month.
So when I saw the postscript "Tony and Shelly maintain a lifelong friendship" at the end of the film, I thought it was a bit funny. It feels the same to me as the whole movie—this is a self-righteous racial reconciliation story from a white perspective. A racist who threw away a cup used by a black man miraculously reversed his concept after a road trip with a black president, after a series of laughter and Jinjiang presidential maneuvers. Not only that, he can also teach the black musician to appreciate black music.
No one would say that the racial problem in today’s world has been resolved, but this movie is dedicated to bringing everyone back to the racist nightmare of the 1960s, using a story that is too sweet to be true (and indeed not true) The most arduous southbound tour was created as a love sketch with a smile and grudges. All disputes and solutions involved in it are as easy and simple as any idol drama.
I don't know which audience can be captured by such a joke. A story of Daoming Temple eating steamed buns with a layer of ethnic filters turned into Xie Li gnawing chicken legs, and a tacky romance in which the flower of Gaoling was besieged by a big man in a bar, with a layer of ethnic filters turned into Tony's witty rescue. Tony, a white man, is the one who solves the trouble, the one who intervenes in the rescue, the one who eventually becomes "good" and helps Shelly find himself; he is the protagonist, who is larger on the poster, and the man nominated is the lead. The movie is the "redemption" of Tony's personal perspective.
The beauty of it is that it makes people comfortable and makes you free from psychological burdens and guilt. The plot that took place in the 1960s is intended to make modern audiences feel good about themselves, as if the troubles have been resolved. The entire social systemic discrimination problem rests on the personal relationship between two people, reduced to eating fried chicken, changing the piano, and refusing to perform. When the two of them are healed, the black and white contradiction will dissipate, and the audience will not have to sit on pins and needles to reflect on past sins and current new problems. Even the heaviest and most discriminatory fragments (black farming on the roadside, different toilets, blacks not entering the restaurant, etc.), the solemnity brought about by the two male protagonists quickly dissipated in the interaction. Some people may like this way of expressing small views, but I personally don't appreciate it, especially when it involves real reality, so understatement, it only takes into account the pleasure of white audiences.
In this year’s Oscar BP nominations, two films were denounced as "politically correct", a green book and a black panther. However, in my opinion, both of them are not correct. Green Book has nothing to do with a neat comedy sketch. One is a checklist-type commercial film that deepens racial stereotypes ("Yunnan people ride elephants to school, Inner Mongolia rides on horses for college entrance examination") and masks black people. Their success makes people want to roll their eyes to Hollywood—just find a bunch of elements, an equation, all movies can hype about their diversity, equality, and anti-discrimination, but their laziness, convenience, and flattering attitude, no matter what How can it not represent the highest level of the film and television industry, and obtaining BP is even more a joke.
However, Oscar's jokes have been real for some time. I thought this had reached its peak when the Water Shape Story won the award last year, but it turned out to be blue this year. meh...
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