The Academy Award winning film doesn't do anything extraordinary; only, it takes the usual, ordinary stuff and does it extra beautiful.
Despite the catchy synopsis of a black music-virtuoso being driven by a white Italian bouncer, the film in its core is all about "friendship".
It depicts the real-life story of Dr. Donald Sherley, a celebrated pianist of Afro-American descent who is on a tour to the south of USA back in '60s when aggressive reservations about Black people were still prevalent. As he hires an Italian driver-bouncer named Tony "Lip" Vallelonga, little did they know that its shall bring their internal-struggles forth - minimally depicted by the selection of hotels in a certain "Green Book", where only Black people are allowed to stay in order to avoid "aggravation" from the Whites, along with the discriminatory alienation of ones existence by creed, colour, ethnicity.
However, that all arrives with an intermittent tenderness - of human bonding over wording out letters to one's wife, eating chicken-wings in a moving car no matter how unsanitary it seems, appreciating inherent talents of playing music or just playing with people, laughing-out loud, and then driving those long distances only in each other's company talking about what-not, and then appreciating how human it is to just be so.
I, for once, was left smiling at the thought of just ending up with family and friends around as I had the time of my life enjoying two people covering miles while scaling distances within their heart; not to mention in ours as well. Safe to say that it's a mark of a good film to make you feel so. So, watch to believe it or just be happy to have read about it, here.
Despite the catchy synopsis of a black music-virtuoso being driven by a white Italian bouncer, the film in its core is all about "friendship".
It depicts the real-life story of Dr. Donald Sherley, a celebrated pianist of Afro-American descent who is on a tour to the south of USA back in '60s when aggressive reservations about Black people were still prevalent. As he hires an Italian driver-bouncer named Tony "Lip" Vallelonga, little did they know that its shall bring their internal-struggles forth - minimally depicted by the selection of hotels in a certain "Green Book", where only Black people are allowed to stay in order to avoid "aggravation" from the Whites, along with the discriminatory alienation of ones existence by creed, colour, ethnicity.
However, that all arrives with an intermittent tenderness - of human bonding over wording out letters to one's wife, eating chicken-wings in a moving car no matter how unsanitary it seems, appreciating inherent talents of playing music or just playing with people, laughing-out loud, and then driving those long distances only in each other's company talking about what-not, and then appreciating how human it is to just be so.
I, for once, was left smiling at the thought of just ending up with family and friends around as I had the time of my life enjoying two people covering miles while scaling distances within their heart; not to mention in ours as well. Safe to say that it's a mark of a good film to make you feel so. So, watch to believe it or just be happy to have read about it, here.