03-19-2019, 02:08 PM
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Green Book (2018)
An uneven but overall very solid movie. There are definitely some strange parts (Don Shirley has never heard Little Richard before? The homosexuality being no issue/never discussed again? Dr. Shirley dresses like an emperor in his spare time? Tony Lip turns down more money to stay with this job even though he's barely started becoming a better person?) but there's a lot of good here. Viggo and Ali are just dynamite, and they make this movie very entertaining throughout. Viggo is going BROAD in all caps and I thoroughly enjoyed it. My biggest gripe is that I would have been more interested in a movie about Don Shirley struggling with the fact that he is not accepted by white or black people, or rich or poor, and is truly a man on an island emotionally. My heart broke for him. However, this movie doesn't really dwell on any of that after bringing it up because it's much more focused on how this is affecting Tony Lip. The comparison to Crash is apt, as in "this is a movie about racism from the lens and perspective of the white character, designed to make the viewer feel better about moving past racism rather than confronting it" however please everybody stop comparing the two because Crash is a bad movie. This is a pretty damn good movie, just from a limited/less interesting perspective. As far as the veracity of the plot, I don't know, man. It's a movie. The Shirley family was really pissed and insisted none of it happened and they were just employee/employer. Then audio came out of Shirley saying "we were more than just employee/employer." So, at the end of the day, I don't know and it doesn't have much to do with the film IMO. It's a very straightforward, old-fashioned movie but done quite well for me.
An uneven but overall very solid movie. There are definitely some strange parts (Don Shirley has never heard Little Richard before? The homosexuality being no issue/never discussed again? Dr. Shirley dresses like an emperor in his spare time? Tony Lip turns down more money to stay with this job even though he's barely started becoming a better person?) but there's a lot of good here. Viggo and Ali are just dynamite, and they make this movie very entertaining throughout. Viggo is going BROAD in all caps and I thoroughly enjoyed it. My biggest gripe is that I would have been more interested in a movie about Don Shirley struggling with the fact that he is not accepted by white or black people, or rich or poor, and is truly a man on an island emotionally. My heart broke for him. However, this movie doesn't really dwell on any of that after bringing it up because it's much more focused on how this is affecting Tony Lip. The comparison to Crash is apt, as in "this is a movie about racism from the lens and perspective of the white character, designed to make the viewer feel better about moving past racism rather than confronting it" however please everybody stop comparing the two because Crash is a bad movie. This is a pretty damn good movie, just from a limited/less interesting perspective. As far as the veracity of the plot, I don't know, man. It's a movie. The Shirley family was really pissed and insisted none of it happened and they were just employee/employer. Then audio came out of Shirley saying "we were more than just employee/employer." So, at the end of the day, I don't know and it doesn't have much to do with the film IMO. It's a very straightforward, old-fashioned movie but done quite well for me.
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