Review of Green Book (2018) by Brunovn00 — 31 Mar 2019

I didn't realize this movie is from the same director of Dumb and Dumber, it's surprising to see a director that generally makes dumb comedies making a Best Picture-winning movie!

This movie is pretty good and I think one of my favorite movies of 2018. The way this movie depicts racism might be a little generic, but really the focus of this movie is the cute friendship our main characters Tony Lip Vallelonga (Viggo Mortensen) and Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali) develop throughout the movie despite their drastic differences in personality and mindset, so this is a movie about a friendship that struggle to move on on their adventure due to the racism seen in the south of the United States during that time.

The Good:

-The beautiful, emotional and heartbreaking story.

-The character development makes you care about the main characters and they also learn something at the end of the movie, they have a nice arc.

-The performances are really good, specially from Mahershala Ali, his Academy Award is truly deserved. Viggo also made a great job playing as a rude, racist and uncaring character.

The Bad:

-The only thing I didn't like is that the movie can get pretty repetitive. There's one scene and then it happens again but with different characters or in a different place, then it happens again, then a completely different situation, but in the next scene it's repeated in a different place, with other characters, and so on.

I loved this movie overall and if it wasn't by that "it's repetitive" complaint, I would have give it a 10/10. The Favourite is actually my favorite movie of the year and my choice for Best Picture, but I have no problem with watching Green Book win the big prize as it's also a great movie.