Green Book film review

“Thank you for sharing your husband with me”

This at times beautiful, and at times sickening tale based on a true story, brings together two great actors, and displays them for all to marvel. Combined with the visionary input of comedy director Peter Farrelly, this picture is really near enough impossible to fault.

To simply describe this feature as a feel good film, as the posters and summaries do, would be committing an injustice. Throughout this film I was entertained, educated, and thrown between the emotional spectrum. Sharing laughter at scenes, and pain at others.

The score worked perfectly, not only to enunciate the true talent Dr. Don Shirley possessed, but to elegantly carry the films narrative.

Viggo Mortensen filled the role of a traditional Italian-American man (Tony Lip) effortlessly, and at times even too well. Throughout this film you not only saw more of his personality, but also his ever growing acceptance of Shirley and awareness of the pain and turmoil he faces.

Mahershala Ali. From the very start of the film, to its closing moments, you saw the pain on his face. You saw the anger her was portraying. Anger in suffering. You not only saw this throughout, but you felt it. Mahershala Ali didn’t just win the Oscar for this performance, he earned it.

Green Book’s stark and damning portrayal of racism in the early 1960s, is a reminder that we need to combat injustice whenever we see it.

Watch this film.

4.5* 9/10

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