Last year's Oscar's Best Picture "Green Book", I finally watched it before this year's Oscar.
Sure enough, I enjoyed the richness of "waiting" again.
The discussion on whether this film should be "banned" is much more interesting than the film itself.
Time has passed for a long time, and it is relatively pure to watch. I have to say that "Green Book" is a very neat, very atmospheric, and very good academic film.
To be honest, at the beginning of the film, I had to think of "Unreachable", which is also about skin color and grade, but also quiet and talkative, and also about redemption and being redeemed.
Just looking at it again, you will feel the depth that "Green Book" wants to touch.
The joy in the first half of Tony's presentation came from the confidence in his bones.
For example, the first time he met Don's violinist, Tony didn't feel distanced from them because he was the driver, but went directly to ask for a cigarette and lit it, leaving only the fiddler's stunned eyes.
Tony refuses to pack the box before the start, just like not agreeing to shine Don's shoes during an interview.
In Tony's mind, it's actually - I'm equal to you, I just work by my craft and not your servant.
On the other hand, Don, although he is elegant in clothing, food, housing, and transportation, the sense of distance he deliberately maintains reveals a trace of unconfidence.
Although it may not be appropriate to say this, for example, Don's disgust when Tony "stealed" the stone, and Don's firmness when Tony threw Coke, all showed that he had a requirement and a principle in his heart.
It's just that lack of self-confidence, which is also in his bones, brought about by this society, is unavoidable.
I say this movie is good because it reflects to a certain extent a history that we are not particularly familiar with.
Although history may be far more cruel than what is shown in the film.
After Tony and Don arrived in the south, there were a group of elegant white people and black people serving them in the picture. Tony and Don were so "abrupt" in it, and the thinking brought by the visual impact could not stop.
How desperate is it to locate a person by skin color.
Try to change, but it is difficult to change.
As the fiddler said, "talent alone is not enough, it takes courage to change the minds of the masses."
Don is great, made such a choice, and remained graceful when discrimination was close at hand - my grace, unaltered by your ignorance and vulgarity.
When it comes to vulgarity, Tony seems to be the vulgar one.
Although he is white, he does not have a very good job due to his background, not to mention his social status and recognition from others.
That's why the film is so rich.
Nobility and humiliation, status and skin color, are intertwined and merged in this way.
It is too difficult to break the rules, especially the long-standing rules, like the "prejudice" mentioned in "Nezha", are a big mountain in people's hearts.
Once knowledge is formed, everything seems to be the way it should be.
Some of the bosses who invited Don to perform may be racist, but some of them are really just following the rules, a long-standing habit, and habit has terrible power.
So later Don accepted the stone that Tony "stealed", as if he also accepted the ease and freedom of breaking the rules.
When Don apologized to Tony, Tony said, "I've worked in nightclubs all my life and I know the world is complicated."
I like this sentence very much, the world is complicated, and everyone's emotions are also complicated, and they are even more complicated when they are intertwined.
On the last night, instead of embarrassing the two of them as usual, the police who followed him helped to remind them to change the tires. Don also stopped maintaining a high attitude and let Tony rest in the back seat to drive for him.
Everything was solid from the beginning, then broke, and then merged.
Is Green Book a good movie? The answer is yes.
As for whether "Green Book" should win the award, it is difficult to draw a conclusion.
It's just that because the film won the award, so many discussions have been extended, which may be a compensation for the film itself.
It's not an excuse, like Tony's forgiveness to Don, it's a lot, it's complicated.
For me
I do remember the end of the movie
Christmas Eve covered in snow
gorgeous
Merry Christmas
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