Text/Dream Book of Poetry
Based on the true story of "Green Book", the film starts with a black customer and a white driver on a road trip across South America. The friendships established in this dangerous but interesting journey not only cross the racial barriers, but also explain how we should truly face ourselves in life.
"Green Book" is a work that makes full use of differences to create dramatic tension. From the performance point of view, what the film shows is a black pianist who was a customer in the United States in the 1960s, in South America, where racial discrimination was still deeply rooted. Tang and the white driver Tony, the difference between the two people's identity dislocation in the eyes of others, but more deeply is the contradiction between the black pianist's self-identity cognition. It's white Tony, a shift in what he sees as an inherent prejudice against black people.
For Tony, who was hired by Don, he discriminated against black people from the very beginning. This point is vividly shown in the movie through the scene where he threw away the black man drinking water glass at the beginning, but forced to make a living, he had to take it. The difference to the highly educated and well-dressed Tang is that on the one hand, he longed to truly integrate into the upper class, but he had to live in the South for blacks as shown in the "Green Book". The hotel where he lives, but here he is out of tune with his black compatriots. On the other hand, he hopes to use his talents to fight for more fairness for black people, so he took the risk to start this unnecessary South American story. trip.
The film also used this journey to give the two characters a vivid image. Tang, who received an excellent education since childhood, showed his extraordinary musical talent in front of Tony, and also helped Tony in the letter for his wife. Writing sweet love words, everything about Don is changing Tony's inherent perception of black people, and it is also during this journey that Tony plays black music for Don that he has never heard before, and buys and never eats for him. After the fried chicken, in the process of getting along with each other, Tang also gradually realized what is the most real self.
At the beginning of the movie, the pianist wearing a Chinese robe and sitting on the throne is actually confused about his self-awareness. Just like the emotions he exploded in the movie, it is neither "black" enough, nor "white" enough, and still less. "Man", talent and money could not bring him dignity in many parts of the United States at that time. In the face of ubiquitous discrimination, what he learned from Tony was courage, from returning to the hotel to go to the toilet to self-dignity protection, to refusing to perform in the restaurant that refused to dine, and finally happily playing jazz in the black restaurant, at the end of the journey, what you reap is a brand new self.
"Green Book" is a masterpiece of anti-racism, but what is more terrible than discrimination is actually self-discrimination. Behind the black and white of the movie, what we see is the adherence to the principles of human nature, and the fear of changing ourselves courage.
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