When talking about this hit Oscar-winning film, the first thing that comes to mind is racism. Indeed, historical and political reasons make the issues explored in this film more complex and profound. But I want to talk about "Green Book" from an emotional point of view, because after reading it, my heart is filled with a kind of peace and warmth.
Tony: People will find themselves different at some point
Only when I look back a second time, I find a detail that was overlooked at the beginning, it is very important. Tony started being prejudiced against black people too. He used disdainful words for the two black men who would be working in the house in the future, and threw their used cups in the trash, which he probably didn't think about, just instinct or the crowd. But now it was his wife who was in contrast, picking up the cup again. The small details make people feel the extraordinaryness of this wife.
Tony has what he loves, he has the goal of earning money to support his family, and he is loyal, but he acts like a gangster and lacks the ability to think and feel the world, as well as in-depth judgment. Sometimes people need a mirror to look at themselves and inspire themselves. Don is that mirror. While he brings Tony the so-called noble life, it is more important to have something called dignity. People do not live blindly, but have their own personality.
He stole a lucky stone that fell on the ground, holding on to luck. In fact, it is basically stealing. Tang absolutely did not give in to this kind of principle issue, which was the first shock.
Tang taught him to write letters, and he learned to express his love in words in a single sentence. It turned out that his enthusiasm was so vivid on paper, he understood. He has a deeper experience of emotion.
When their friendship became more and more harmonious, he began to hold grievances for Tang. He was impulsive and reckless and only fought, and finally ended up in prison. Tang's behavior told him that if you want to gain dignity, you don't need to fight with your fists. People have to control themselves and learn to be patient and tolerant. Your talent and character will be respected by people.
This trip made Tony discover a different self. At the dinner party at the end of his return home, he was no longer the self who was arrogant but had nothing in his heart. He was feeling that something was different, and the change happened at a certain moment in his life.
Tang Shirley: Lonely people are afraid to take the first step
Tang Shirley is a bit distressing. But I'm not the only one who thinks so.
"His aloofness is not noble, he is just used to being alone." Many people praised this barrage.
He's gifted and talented, he's accomplished what ordinary people can't achieve, and he's a pianist who goes to the White House to play. What an enviable life he had.
Is a life envied by the audience necessarily happy?
Tang is a person who is very good at covering up, and he used a cold pianist to cover up that fragile little corner of his heart. He lives alone, with no relatives and no one to complain about. In the explosive scene in the rain, he finally expressed his heart to Tony. He was just helping the rich white people play the piano to show elegance, and he stepped off the stage and became a discriminated old black who was not accepted by his own race. "I'm not white enough, and I'm not black enough. Not a man, who am I." This is Tang's self-torture. There was a problem with his self-identity. His heart is floating and has no place to belong.
People need a sense of identity in the world, and they will find out why they live. Just because Tang's spiritual world is rich and sensitive, he knows that he is a genius, but at the same time a genius is lonely. Especially in those days. There are always people looking at him with various eyes, questioning, contempt, unfair treatment, and his pressure is too heavy.
Don Shirley gave up the last show, it was his rebellion. When he started playing the piano in the bar, he bloomed like that. He smiled, he was immersed in it, it was different from every performance he had played in the past, the piano was far from the famous Steinway he had asked for in the past, but that piano was enough to show all his charm, he was breaking through Inner obstacles, the enthusiastic applause ushered in the highlight moment of his life.
Can people of different classes and skin colors be friends?
Don and Tony, as a black man, he is a noble and talented pianist, and Tony, as a white man, is an old gunner who seeks a life and mixes society at the bottom. This is first of all a contrast. In an era when people would be discriminated against because of their skin color, this kind of personality would create contrasts and contradictions in itself. It should be difficult to get along, my friend, could this word come from these two people? Everyone was full of denial and doubt. There are so many differences between the two that it is destined to be an unusual journey.
It is the kindness that makes them truly connect. They started with mutual sympathy.
In the middle of this scene, I love KFC so much. Although there is suspicion of advertising, I am really willing to pay for this kind of advertising. Do you want to eat fried chicken? Tony's mouth is full of oil, eating KFC's family barrels, hoisting all the appetites of people, a life of feasting, and accompanied by Tony's famous saying, "No matter what you do, do it 100%, work is work, laugh at it. Laugh, eat as much as you want, it's like eating your last meal." When Tang started eating with the chicken wings, he refused - hesitated - reluctantly accepted - couldn't stop, and began to eat a big chicken chop with oil on his hands, Really makes people smile. In the end, Tang, who insisted on not throwing plastic waste, fell in love with him at once.
Both have shortcomings, one is calm and the other is talkative, it is simply the best CP.
It's hard for Don to open up and accept someone, right?
Because the world is full of lonely people who are afraid and take the first step.
Tony gave him courage. What Tang has always wanted to do is to bravely change people's hearts and give dignity to black people. But Tony gave him another kind of strength, making him feel the warmth of the world.
It was a house with lights, family and friends, and love.
What a happy ending.
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