Review of Green Book (2018)
Seen in 2020.
Russian-trained pianist Don Shirley and bouncer slash future mafia-movie actor Tony Lip make their way through variably racist US states in late 1962.
This fantasy of personally heroic racial reconciliation isn’t the best way to understand US racism, and the humour might be a little too broad for the subject matter, featuring Joe Pan and the whisky chuckle. Still, the tone is significantly better than e.g. Crash (2004), partly because it is less theatrical. The events on the road are roughly what I expected, but never quite, and there’s excellent filmmaking throughout.