" Green Book " received many praises upon its release, and won the 91st Academy Awards Best Picture in 2019. This film tells the story of Tony, an Italian-American who works as a bodyguard in a nightclub, and is hired by a black classical pianist named Don as a driver and bodyguard to transport him when he tours the South. In the deeply racially divided South of the 1960s, they could easily have gotten into trouble, but Tony needs money, and Don needs a professional driver who can take care of him. The record company responsible for paying Tony gave him a "Green Book" guide, which listed where local blacks could eat and sleep, because many hotels and restaurants in the South were white-only. The two experienced a lot on the road, and these experiences contributed to their friendship across race and class.
The content of the video made many people very emotional after watching it, but if you delve into many details in the video, you can find the sinister intentions behind the director. On the surface, the film promotes resistance to racial discrimination, but on a deeper level it expresses racial discrimination and cultural aggression.
When Tang and Tony were eating fried chicken in the car, Tang always had a high opinion of himself and was unwilling to eat fried chicken. Because among the bottom class of black Americans, this cheap and delicious food is their favorite. Finally, under Tony's coercion and inducement, Tang ate fried chicken and showed his love for fried chicken. This clip implicitly satirizes the sensitive self-esteem issues and lack of self-confidence of black Americans, and portrays black people as a group that likes to eat cheap fried chicken.
Tang and a white boy were arrested by the police and detained in the police station for bathing naked in a public bathhouse. The police suspected they were having sex, and homosexuality was illegal at the time. The film does not name Tang as gay, but uses various ways to imply that Tang's sexual orientation is abnormal. When Tony went to the police station to rescue Tang, the screen showed the sign of a YMCA hotel, and YMAC is a tacit dating destination for gay men in the West. When Don is rescued from the police station, he vents to Tony in the rain and shouts: "If I'm not a man, then who am I?", also alluding to his homosexuality. The director used this method to discriminate against the large number of homosexuals among black Americans, and to induce young white Americans to touch taboos.
In the finale, when Christmas comes, Don does not accept Tony's Christmas invitation, and then takes the initiative to visit Tony because he has nowhere to go. The ending seems to be a happy ending, but the director is secretly using a metaphor. At Christmas, Don didn't have any black friends or relatives in the United States with whom to celebrate the holiday. High-ranking black people seem out of place among black people. The black group will only get used to sticking together with each other at the bottom and isolating high-status black people like Tang. As a pianist, Tang has the opportunity to stand out because of the Western cultural constitution, and he is also promoting the excellence of the Western cultural constitution.
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