The first movie of the new year, eating raw meat. As the tour goes around in the movie, I can't help but think back to Martin Luther King's voice, "Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana… …" Like "Sometimes you remind me of a house" in Tony's own later letter to Dolores, where "little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little" white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers."
At the same time, I can't help but recall the "Philadelphia Story", homosexuality and AIDS are discriminated against vs black people, the gradually changing Miller vs the gradually changing Tony, there are warm holiday parties, bring a bottle of wine, even Tony and Miller The path of psychological change is similar. You must first see the situation of someone who is different from you. It is not enough. You have to fall into a situation of someone who is different from you. Of course, the handling of this film is far less natural and poetic than that of The Philadelphia Story, although the changes in The Philadelphia Story are one-way. Fried chicken is the "prop" of Tony's transformation towards Donald, and the "prop" similar to fried chicken in "Philadelphia Story" is classical music, that classic Tom Hanks listening to Callas singing "Andrea Chenier" "My mother died. "The excerpt is the turning point for Miller to really approach classical music and enter Andrew's inner world. This kind of poetic and high-level passage is lacking in Green Book. The infectious power of Donald's outburst in the rain actually does not play its due concentration in the structure and arrangement of the whole film, let alone with "The Philadelphia Story" Compare the shock of the massive hammer blow at the end of Tom Hanks' dying scene. Although the Green Book has a coherent and echoing design, it still feels loose, but it can actually be handled more tightly and more powerfully.
Finally, Green Book is talking about black people. Miller, who also looked at homosexuality and AIDS in Philadelphia at first, was also black. It can be seen that although racial discrimination still exists today, the discrimination against homosexuality is indeed more profound. The world will be good? We still have to believe it will be fine.
And it will be fine, I believe!
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