4/30/2023 0 Comments Green book yify![]() ![]() There are plenty of people who are not hateful, racist or willfully ignorant who will enjoy “Green Book” I am very sure that I know and love a whole lot of people who will enjoy “Green Book." (I’d wager that the white people who go see “Green Book” think of themselves as socially open-minded people who like seeing other white folks overcome their prejudices and become friends. I don’t think anyone who made “Green Book” consciously set out on a mission to make white people feel smug and self-congratulatory about race relations, but that’s the end result of watching it. ![]() However, there are movies that appeal to one’s better angels, and then there’s ones that pander, and I got sucked in because of the latter - not because of some inherent maliciousness in the pandering, but because of my own thoughtlessness, laziness and socialization. Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali are incredible actors - and they could make fine wine out of Pruno - so once they both began to loosen up and like each other, I started to like them, and to believe in their on-screen friendship. About an hour into “Green Book,” I found myself struggling with Stockholm syndrome. ![]()
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