And the three words of "Green Book", if you put it in the previous life, it is really three words that are like thunder.

It is also a classic legend.

"Green Book" is a drama art film directed by Peter Ferrari and starring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali.

It tells the story of Tony, the bodyguard of the Italian-American American, who is hired to drive for Don, the world's best jazz pianist. The pianist will embark on a tour from New York, a story of friendship that transcends race and class.

The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2018; It was released in Chinese mainland on March 1, 2019. The film won several nominations for Best Supporting Actor, Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Editing at the 91st Academy Awards in January 2019. In January, Mahershala Ali won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 25th Screen Actors Guild Awards, Best Supporting Actor at the 72nd British Academy Film Awards, and Best Supporting Actor at the 2019 British Free Film Awards. On February 25, actor Mahershala Ali won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 91st Academy Awards, and the film won the Best Picture Award and Best Original Screenplay Award at the 91st Academy Awards.

This is a film that profoundly depicts the racial and class aspects that Lao Mei has not been able to completely erase and eradicate.

Many of the episodes are set up very realistically, and they are also in reality, and the various problems that black people will face.

The whole film is very realistic, and many problems are very thorough.

And the title of the movie "Green Book" is also a real black travel guide in history. In 1962, when the white supremacy movement was another upsurge in the United States, Victor Hugo, a black postal clerk, wrote a pamphlet pointing out which inns and restaurants allowed blacks to stay and eat.

The name of the booklet, "Green Book", is derived from green, and seems to have adopted the meaning of green symbolizing unobstructedness.

The two male protagonists of the film take this green book and drive around the United States to tour. One male protagonist is Don, a famous black musician, and the other is Tony, a white veteran who hangs in a nightclub, and is called to be Don's driver. The contrast in skin color and cultural accomplishment naturally produces some wonderful chemical reactions on the journey. In addition, the film also shows many levels of entanglements: racial discrimination, racial inequality, between master and servant, the social status of musicians, family relationships, and so on.

Many of the films that respond to racism have some politically correct connotations in them, which are reflected in this movie, from the very beginning, it should be the plot of Don, a musician in a bar, getting drunk and being beaten up by a group of white men.

In the end, it was Tony (the white driver) who fought the violence with violence and rescued Don with a bunch of fists and a shotgun.

What is even greater about the film, however, is that it unexpectedly avoids direct conflict between races in favor of discrimination itself in some reversed ways.

Whites who seem to be friendly take a 180-degree turn when they encounter real problems.

For example, the two of them went south to a luxurious estate.

The owner of the manor house received the musicians very politely.

Later, after the performance, Don wanted to use the bathroom, but the owner of the manor refused to let him use the toilet for the guests, and only let him use the thatched pit built by a simple shed in the courtyard. Because at that time in the South, and in the era before the emancipation of serfs, blacks could not use the same toilet as whites.

Even if Don was a noble musician and performed twice at the White House, he was no exception. When the two were imprisoned for Tony hitting the traffic police, Don called the president's younger brother and was released from prison after receiving an "amnesty" from the top.

Even such a Don is not immune to discrimination. Another example of this contrast comes from a fancy restaurant in Birmingham. The restaurant invited Don to perform, and when the restaurant manager saw Don, his mouth was full of praise, but the lounge arranged for Don was a small storage room, and Don was not allowed to eat in the restaurant, because the restaurant's rule was not to accept black people.

In Wu Sin's opinion, there is a greater thing about this movie.

The film is also a bit of a "right" for white people. In the middle of the journey, a dialogue between the two sublimates the theme of the film.

Tony said, I grew up in a small society, surrounded by my relatives and acquaintances, I haven't read any books, I haven't seen much of the world, unlike you who have so much education, that's why I think I'm like this. This passage was originally intended to refute Don's belief that Tony's behavior was too vulgar and based on appearance, but in other words, I saw some sympathy for those who discriminated against him on the issue of discrimination.

Contemporary American can be said to have taken discrimination to the extreme.

For example, in a post above Zhihu in China, an international student is that when he first came to study there, he met an Asian classmate in the school, with an English name and a Chinese surname. We sometimes ask if you can speak Chinese (either we speak Chinese and communicate well) or if you are from Hanxia. The other party was silent for a few seconds and said:

"I'm from Michigan!".

Then give a roll of the eyes and leave.

I once chatted with my roommate, who is also an international student in Hanxia, and I felt that most ABCs are difficult to communicate, so you stepped forward to say hello, and she responded casually and turned around and left. The roommate said that because they were afraid that they would be mistaken for Hanxia students, they were far away from the circle of Chinese.

The roommate said that there was a post on the Internet, saying that those cold ABCs came from low-level immigrant families, and it was not easy for my parents to work in the dark in the early years, and I was afraid that I would be regarded as a nanny and a waiter in a Chinese restaurant, so I had to desperately rely on the mainstream society. And those ABCs who immigrate with their highly educated parents don't matter, they take the initiative to report out of their homes when they contact international students, and some of them insist on speaking a few words of Chinese to win everyone's favor.

Think about it, it's basically the same around you. In the past, when we were in China, there was often discrimination in terms of region, clothing, and school. "High climbing" is probably the mentality that everyone has more or less. The smaller the city, the more serious the mentality of judging people by their appearance. They haven't seen much of the world, and they label people based on their accent and appearance.

Then the international student heard from a white colleague the other day that she had gone to a party and met a black man. The apartment was carpeted, so everyone took off their shoes. She complimented the other party on the pattern on the socks for being beautiful. The black guy said, thank you, it's the basketball socks. Then she asked:

"You play basketball?"

"Hey, you're discriminating against me." The black man was very angry and said,

What? I'll just casually ask you if you play basketball, that is, I discriminate against you? Yes, the world of basketball is indeed dominated by black people. But is this guy too glassy, or does he naturally think that as long as you are white, you will discriminate against black people. Is this also a form of discrimination against the color of white people's skin?

So many people began to think about whether a lot of racial discrimination was abused.

It is not uncommon to see an employee of Asian descent in an organization who works much harder than his African-American counterpart, with far fewer opportunities for salary and promotion. Hanxia and minorities compete for the same position in academic circles, and if the resumes of Chinese people are not much higher than each other, they basically cannot get them. I once had dinner with a few minority friends, and they themselves said that when we apply to schools, we will emphasize our own race, so that the application will be much easier, and it is really difficult for you Chinese to go to school.

Then the post also explained that the international student also met a domestic second-generation sociology student from Columbia University.

Because I have encountered white eyes before, I don't ask questions about family or language when I meet Chinese people now.

After chatting and chatting, she took the initiative to tell me that her parents were from Hanxia.

The international student looked a little surprised. Unexpectedly, she was actually very excited and said, "Wow, don't I look like a Hanxia person!" ”。 It seems that it is also an ABC who wants to get rid of the identity of the Hanxia people. Later, we talked about going on to higher education. I said that it is not easy for you Asians, you have to be much better than minorities to get into the same grade of school. She said, "It's not right for you to say this, because the Amerijian people know that we Hanxia people can come to the United States, and we are not ordinary people, for example, my father is a university professor, he can easily find a job, and our family's economy is also secure; But the blacks were historically an oppressed proletariat, with a low starting point, and they had to be compensated for something.

This movie can be regarded as giving white people a small opportunity to complain. Not every white person has a higher education and has seen the world, and not every white person has to live a sanctimonious life. I grew up in a small environment, I haven't met many people who are different from me, I have only seen black people who eat fried chicken, I think you seem to be a person who likes to eat fried chicken to buy fried chicken, can you also understand my short-sightedness and straightforwardness.

However, racial discrimination is also a thorn deeply engraved in the hearts of many ethnic minorities, and this thorn may not have really been pulled out, so it will also show a very sensitive and sharp attitude towards some issues.

This may also be what Wu Sin wants to say through this movie.

You guys are so anxious!

What he wanted to say was, he wanted to metaphorically, "I know you're in a hurry, but don't worry!" ”