"Green Book" is a movie that is constantly laughing throughout but warm to the bone

Today I revisited the movie "Green Book" because I liked it too much. The film shows us arrogance and discrimination, effort and persistence, inferiority and transcendence.

The film is based on a true story and takes place in the 1960s, a time when racial discrimination was at its worst.

Here are three ways I will take you through the charm of this movie.

1. Opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared.

The film begins by showing the audience Tony's wit as a bar waiter who finds his hat for important guests. Although Tony used means and deliberately in this case, the purpose of eventually becoming friends with this important guest was also achieved.

In the process of applying for Dr. Shelley's driver, Tony's intelligence and humility were highlighted in the question-and-answer conversation. Dr. Shelly contacted Tony because several people recommended Him. People say he's a reliable person. This is inseparable from Tony's own strength and interpersonal skills.

Judging from the difficulties he encountered during his tour with Dr. Shelley, the position of driver and assistant was really indispensable to Tony. When he encounters a white in a bar, Tony calmly makes a move to draw a gun, which completely calms the and thus escapes the disaster.

Dr. Shelly was extremely strict about the piano used for playing, but when he went to a concert hall, Tony found that the piano was dirty and broken, and after communicating with the local workers to no avail, Tony saw that the workers looked down on the black people and were unwilling to cooperate, and decisively solved the problem with violence.

From various events, it can be seen that Tony is well versed in human nature, and when he encounters trouble, he is cool-headed, courageous, good at solving problems, and the reputation of the masses is good, such a person, even if unemployed, with his own skills, can also be mixed.

2. True friendship is mutual achievement.

Two black plumbing workers came to Tony's house, and after the two workers left, Tony threw their used water cups directly into the trash can, and when relatives knew he was going to be a driver for a black man, they felt that the job was less than a week.

Dr. Shelley was a black man, but because he was discovered to be talented in music since childhood, he had been studying at a white music school by chance, during which he also suffered countless white eyes and ridicule, but he put up with it.

On the way to the tour, Tony introduced the music and food that black people like Dr. Shelley, as a black Dr. Shelley, he didn't know who the popular black singer was, didn't know that black people liked to eat fried chicken, Tony thought it was incredible, but Dr. Shelley was annoyed and angry, perhaps because Dr. Shelley's inferiority complex and evasive psychology as a black person were at work. At the same time, it reflects Dr. Shelley's ambivalence as a black man, who is unwilling to face his black identity and wants to fight for equal status for black people.

Along the way, Tony solves all kinds of troubles for Shelley, Shelly helps Tony write a romantic family letter, the racial discrimination between the two has long been relieved, even when Shelly is called a by the police, Tony can't stand it, and on the way back is Dr. Shelly driving Tony home. The friendship between the two has been sublimated in this tour.

3. Eliminate discrimination and let warmth sprinkle the world.

During Tony's interview, Dr. Shelly said he would hire a servant to wash his clothes and polish his shoes. Tony looked down on black people so much, and how could he agree. But for the sake of a particularly good salary, Tony promised him that he would just drive and would not take on the role of servant.

Dr. Shelly, who was black, was particularly popular in the northern United States because of his excellent performance, but he was going to the south to perform, and the discrimination against blacks was particularly severe in those places. Blacks and whites could not eat together, and blacks could only sleep in dilapidated hotels. Before the show, he had to change clothes in the utility room in the kitchen, and during the break, Dr. Shelly wanted to go to the bathroom, but had to go outside under the pine trees, because the white people were afraid of soiling the bathroom in the house.

Dr. Shelley endured these humiliations only to bring his superb playing skills to every corner of the United States, so as to win respect for his black race, hoping that one day black people would no longer be discriminated against.

At the final stop of the tour, he was not allowed to dine in the restaurant as the lead pianist. At this point he was faced with two choices: to eat outside and the show could continue; to insist on eating in the restaurant and to abandon the show. If put in the past, he may have chosen the former, but now he has decisively chosen the latter, and this time he will fight for dignity.

Dr. Shelley takes Tony to a black bar, where Dr. Shelly eats the black man's favorite fried chicken and drinks the black man's favorite drink, and he plays the piano for the first time in the black bar, and in that moment he is relaxed, he is not escaping his race, and he accepts himself.

After a lap of the tour, on the way home, they met the southern police again, this time instead of detaining blacks on the grounds that they were not allowed to appear on the street after sunset, as they did the first time, but kindly reminded them that the rear tires needed to be replaced. As they were on the road, the police said "Merry Christmas." At this moment, although it was snowing heavily, it felt particularly warm.

At the end of the film, Tony invites Dr. Shelly to his house for Christmas and introduces everyone to my friend. Just like that, with the flickering candlelight and the kind smiles on everyone's faces, the movie ended.