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Green Book
    2019-02-27  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

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“Green Book” is a feel-good buddy comedy-drama featuring an elegant black musician and his white driver on tour in the pre-integration* U.S. South of 1962. Starring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali, this is Peter Farrelly’s first solo feature film.

The script by Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie and the director was inspired by an actual tour made by the gifted, multi-faceted musician Don Shirley (Ali). As the film shows, the Jamaican-born Shirley could superbly play any kind of music, from classical to jazz; spoke many languages (including Russian); and carried himself as an aristocrat* who thinks propriety and decorum* very important.

However, for a tour that would start in the North but make most of its stops south of the Mason-Dixon line, Shirley realizes he needs a white driver to run interference* if necessary. He finds him in Tony “Lip” Vallelonga (Mortensen), an Italian-American bouncer*.

Tony has a short fuse*, a healthy-unhealthy appetite (he wins US$50 by eating 26 hot dogs in a contest), a nice wife (Linda Cardellini) and a couple of young boys.

In an apartment above Carnegie Hall, Shirley interviews Tony while wearing a white robe and gold jewelry. This hardly looks like a match made in heaven, but Shirley insists that this self-assured*, good-natured tough guy is exactly who he needs to keep him safe down South.

The title refers to Victor Hugo Green’s “The Negro Motorist Green Book,” published annually from 1936-1966 as a guide for black travelers as to where they could stay, eat and receive services during the dangerous days of Jim Crow and sundown laws*.

Moments after being applauded for his lovely performances before all-white audiences, Shirley is forced to stay in forlorn* motels and flophouses*.

The ironies and injustices increase with depressing regularity the longer the tour continues in the South. There’s also a letting-off-steam interlude* when the pair goes to a black honky-tonk* and Shirley gets down musically for the first time.

A musical sequence features a long uninterrupted look at Shirley playing some Chopin at the piano, and Ali’s fingering and exactitude in this performance is very impressive.

(SD-Agencies)

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