Author: Qingshan Hospital Leader

If the three words "Green Book" are put into the previous life, they will be really three words that are well-known.

It is also a classic legendary work.

"Green Book" was a dramatic art film directed by Peter Ferrari and starring Vigo Motson and Mahshara Ali in his previous life.

It tells the story of Tony, an Italian-American bodyguard, who was hired to drive as the world's excellent jazz pianist Don. The pianist will start to perform in New York, and a friendship that transcends race and class between the two.

The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2018; it was released in mainland China on March 1, 2019. The film won the 91st Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Best Film, Best Actor, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Editing at the 91st Academy Awards. In January, Mahershala Ali won the 91st Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Film at the 91st Academy Awards, and Best Original Screenplay Award for Best Supporting Actor at the 91st Academy Awards.

This is a film that profoundly describes the racial class issues that the United States has never been able to completely erase and eradicate.

Many scenes are set up very realistically, and in reality, various problems faced by black people.

The whole film shows very realistically, and many problems are very thorough.

The movie title "Green Book" is also a historically real guide to black travel. In 1962, the White Supremacy Movement once again climaxed in the United States. Black Postman Victor Hugo Green wrote such a booklet pointing out which hotels and restaurants allow blacks to stay and eat.

Green in the name of the booklet, "Green Book", is taken from Green, and it seems to use the meaning of green symbolizing smoothness.

The two male protagonists of the movie drove to tour across the United States with this green book. One male protagonist is the famous black musician Don, and the other is the old white cannon who is mingling in a nightclub. He was called to be Tang's driver. The contrast between skin color and cultural cultivation naturally produces some wonderful chemical reactions on the journey. In addition, the movie also shows many levels of entanglements: racial discrimination, racial inequality, master and servant, the social status of musicians, family relationships, etc.

Many movies that react to racial discrimination have some politically correct meanings, which are reflected in this movie. From the beginning, it should be the plot of musician Don in a bar getting drunk and being beaten up by a group of white people.

In the end, Tony (the white driver) defeated the violence with violence and rescued Don under a pile of fists and a hunting gun muzzle.

However, the greater thing about this movie is that it unexpectedly avoids direct conflict between races and instead uses some reversal methods to reflect discrimination itself.

White people look friendly, but when they encounter practical problems, they make a big turn.

For example, the two went south to a luxurious manor.

The owner of the manor politely received the musicians.

Then after the performance, Tang wanted to use the bathroom, but the owner of the manor refused to let him use the bathroom for guests, and only let him use a simple shed in the yard to build a pit. Because at that time in the south and before the liberation of serfs, black people could not use the same toilet as white people.

Even though Tang's musician status is very noble, he performed twice in the White House, it is no exception. When the two were put into jail because Tony beats the traffic police, Tang called the president's younger brother and was released from prison after receiving "pardon" from the upper class.

Even such a Tang cannot avoid being discriminated against. Another example of contrast comes from the two of them in a high-end restaurant in Birmingham. The restaurant invited Tang to perform. When the restaurant manager met Tang, he spoke with praise, but the lounge arranged for Tang was a small storage room, and Tang was not allowed to eat in the restaurant, because the restaurant's regulations were not to receive black people.

In Wu Zui's opinion, this movie has something even greater.

This movie also has a bit of a "righteous" meaning for white people. In the middle of the journey, a dialogue between the two sublimates the theme of the movie.

Tony said, I grew up in a small society, surrounded by my relatives and acquaintances. I have never read any books or seen any world. I am not as educated as you, so I think I am like this. This passage originally refuted Don's view that Tony's behavior was too vulgar and judged people by his appearance. But I saw some sympathy for discriminators on the issue of discrimination.

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

For example, a post on Zhihu in China, an international student was. When he first came to study there, he met an Asian classmate in the school with an English name and a Chinese surname. Sometimes we would ask it habitually, and would ask if you can speak Chinese (either we can communicate with Chinese) or are you from Hanxia? The other party was silent for a few seconds and said:

"I'm from Michigan!".

Then rolled his eyes and left.

Once I chatted with a roommate who was also a Hanxia student. I felt that most ABCs were difficult to communicate. If you come forward to say hello, she would just respond casually and turn around and leave. The roommate said that because they were afraid that they would be mistaken for Hanxia student, they were far away from the Chinese circle.

My roommate said that there was a post online that said that those cold ABCs were all from low-level immigrant families. In the early years, my parents were not easy to work as illegitimate workers. After finally getting to the scene, they were afraid that they would be treated as nannies and Chinese restaurant waiters, so they had to rely on mainstream society desperately. However, those ABCs who immigrated with their highly educated parents did not care. When they came into contact with international students, they took the initiative to sign up for the home, and some of them insisted on speaking a few Chinese words to win everyone's favor.

Think about it, the same rule is basically the same around us. In the past, when we were in China, we often had regional discrimination, clothing discrimination, and school discrimination. "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 have never seen too many worlds, and label people according to their accent and appearance.

Then the international student heard a white colleague say a few days ago that she went to a party to meet a black man. The apartment was full of carpets, so everyone took off their shoes. She praised the patterns on each other's socks for looking very good. The black man said, thank you, it was basketball socks. Then she asked:

"You play basketball?"

"Hey, you're discriminating against me." The black man said angrily.

What? I just ask you whether you play basketball or not, is that I discriminate against you? Yes, the basketball world is indeed dominated by black people. But is this guy too flirtatious, or does he naturally think that as long as you are white, you will discriminate against black people? Is this also a kind of discrimination against white people's skin color?

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

I often see that Asian employees in a unit are much harder than African employees, but have much less salary and promotion opportunities. Hanxia people compete with a minority in the academic circle for the same position. If the Chinese resume is not much higher than the other party, they basically cannot get it. Once I had a meal with a few friends of a minority, they also said that when we apply for schools, we will emphasize our own race, so it will be much easier to apply. It is really difficult for you Chinese to go on the road of studying.

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

Because I had been rolling my eyes before, I don’t ask questions about family and language when I meet Chinese people now.

Afterwards, she took the initiative to tell me that her parents are from Hanxia.

The international student looked a little surprised. Unexpectedly, she was very excited and said, "Wow, do I don't look like Hanxia people?" It seems that she is also an ABC who wants to get rid of Hanxia people's identity. Later we talked about going to school. I said that it is not easy for you Asians to be much better than a few Americans to enter a school of the same level. She said, "You are wrong, because Amerijian people know that we Hanxia people can come to the United States, and they are not ordinary people themselves. For example, my father is a university professor. He can easily find a job and our family's economy is also guaranteed; but blacks were originally oppressed proletariat in history, and the starting point was low, so they had to be compensated.

This movie can also be regarded as giving white people a small opportunity to complain. Not every white person has received higher education and has seen the world, nor is it that every white person has to live a hypocritical life. I grew up in a small environment, I have never seen many people different from me, I have only seen black people eating fried chicken. I think you seem to be a person who likes to eat fried chicken and bought fried chicken. Can you also understand my short-sightedness and straightforwardness?

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

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

You guys are so anxious!
Chapter completed!