Personally, I think the truth revealed in the "Green Book" is that equality should not be treated differently based on race. Everyone deserves fair and just treatment.
This movie takes place in a period when there were great racial differences between the north and the south. The story tells the touching story of Shirley, a black musician, who went on a tour south and hired Tony, a reliable white man, as a driver and guard. During the trip south, they had a series of conflicts, got along well with each other, and became friends beyond racial concepts. ?
The first time I watched this movie, I felt warm and touching. Between the two movies, I felt an indescribable sense of dissonance. The whole movie exaggerated the greatness of white Tony and beautified Tony's bravery and honesty. The kind character expresses the line of Tony becoming Shirley's driver, and the purpose of saving black people through white people. Therefore, the director and screenwriter interpret the hidden meaning behind the story through the "non-verbal" and "verbal" metaphors depicted in the movie. political relations, causing profound thinking about human nature and social relations.
There are many "non-verbal" scenes in the film that confirm the purpose of the film that ultimately must represent the theme of white people transcending the status of black people. Judging from the opening of the movie, this movie is also a story with white Tony as the protagonist. It mainly tells the "master-slave" relationship in which a noble black musician hires a white driver, but the white driver starts the black musician's life. story. The video repeatedly uses long shots to show Tony driving Shirley on the road. In this picture, Tony, a white man, is sitting in the driver's seat driving, and Shirley, a black man, is sitting in the direction from behind. Can you understand that the white man is leading the black man?
Looking at the entire story, the verbal dialogue between Tony and Shirley is concise and concise, but without too much dialogue, it can elicit the meaning of the theme. Based on the analysis of these two characteristics, the movie aims to show the spirit of harmony between people through the story that happens between white Tony and black Shelley.
This is a movie adapted from a true story. The original screenwriter was Tony's son. Regardless of whether the material he provided is completely true, the director's intentions are obviously different. Therefore, Shirley's descendants watched the movie and found out that there were many untrue aspects of the story. The real Shirley did not make friends with Tony.