Green Book

The storyline is about 2 individuals with different backgrounds find unexpected commonalities when cultural & society views differ. The story was based on true events. Great to watch over and over.

I think about this film. I think about relaltionships Ive had but more importantly I think about how a person feels when he is uninvited into society at large. Im glad people are still making films about racism. I think I understand the issue but each film reminds me that I really dont understand how it FEELS. When my grammar school was integrated in the 1940s, I went to school with people of color and didnt think much about how they felt in their daily lives. I was in my 60s when I attended a reunion and found out that one of the brightest women who is a whole lot more successful than I ever was had to sit in the balcony at the movies when we were young . I never thought about where she was when I was with my white friends at the movies. So I recommend that everyone see this film and that more films be made to drive home the point over and over. See this, youll learn something.....perhaps not during the film but while youre stuck in traffic and your mind can think about it.

The story line was very well written and the actors performances were ... well, I cant come up with a word to describe what phenomenal job they did bringing these characters to life. Based on a true story, too, showing how two people from different worlds become lifelong friends. Many laughs and heart-warming moments.

GREAT SCRIPT WRITING!!! When a movie can make a person laugh and cry it deserves an “Academy Award!” And this movie won an AA! But, Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali should have won “Best Actor” academy awards! Bad on Hollywood’s part. Viggo played an excellent character part as an uneducated Italian-American and Mahershala played a excellent Virtuoso Pianist. I’m an author, singer, songwriter and future scriptwriter and, this movie touched my heart! It was funny from the start to the finish and in between made me cry because of racism and real life situations/circumstances. If you want to get out of the Covid-19 pandemic blues and LAUGH your guts out because, laughing is healing, WATCH THIS MOVIE!!! I bought this movie 7/6/2021 and have watched it 20 times now and gonna watch it the rest of the year. Because I personally NEED to LAUGH. This pandemic has been murderous to say the least! So everyone should rent or buy this great movie and watch it. It makes me laugh more than it makes me cry. This movie should have won 5 Academy Awards! Shame on you Hollywood. But, thank you for a great movie. I want to thank Nick Vallelonga for exposing his families private life as well as the script writer who should have won an Academy Award for best script/screenwriter and the director. I give this movie a 10 Star Rating!!!!!!!!!! RB, Santa Cruz, CA

Based on a true life story will pull me in every time. Real people can change, if they want to, for the betterment of all!

Love this movie.

Green Book will be notable in movie history if for no other reason than being the 2018 Best Picture winner at the Oscars. I stopped watching the Oscars years ago because they seem to delight in choosing the obscure or films that kowtow to popular fads, but Green Book is one of the rare exceptions that the Oscars got right. This film is the shared story of two disparate characters. The first is Don Shirley, an gifted African-American pianist, trained in Russia, connoisseur of languages, with an apartment above Carnegie Hall. The other was Tony Vallelonga, a rough-and-tumble Italian-American bouncer with connections to organized crime and a tremendous capacity to eat. When Shirley decides to undertake a tour of the Deep South in the early 1960s, he knows he will need protection. On the other hand, the nightclub Tony works at is closed for repairs and he needs a job for the next few months. After interviewing multiple people for the position of chauffeur, bodyguard, and bagman, Don eventually decides to hire Tony. At the beginning of their journey, there is a significant amount of friction between the two. Don is highly cultured, while Tony is salt of the earth; more notably, being of two different races leads Tony to make some insensitive, albeit not malicious, comments. Soon enough, however, Tony helps Don get out of tough situations and they bond. Some of the best scenes in the film are when Don performs. The piano work was actually done by Kris Bowers, but Mahershala Ali carries himself with confidence as he mimics the movements. Despite his obvious talent, Don is never fully accepted by white society. As Don himself notes, he feels too white to fit into black society and too black to join white society. This internal conflict reaches an emotional resolution in one of the final scenes of the film. There has been some criticism from Don Shirleys family that the film whitewashes aspects of his life. Leaving aside the question of whether Shirley was estranged from his kin (I get the impression he was), no story is able to incorporate every single perspective. Tony Vallelonga clearly held Don Shirley in high regard and viewed him as a friend, an attitude many white people fifty years ago were incapable of. More importantly, even if the story were entirely fictional, I think it offers a valuable lesson that we as human beings can learn from others whose experiences (and hence their perspectives) are different from our own. If nothing else, the film acquainted me with Don Shirley, who I had never heard of before, but whose music I now own on vinyl. The moments of levity, drama, and musical virtuosity in this film make it a great way to pass an evening. I highly recommend that everyone take the time to enjoy the performances of Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen.

My husband and I really enjoyed this movie. It’s based on a true story.

This movie kept popping up on my Fire TV recommendations. Although Im a big fan of Viggo Mortensen, I felt it was a reverse Driving Miss Daisy. (Which is much better than what liberals would admit it is). This movie floored me. Funny, touching and accurate. I would recommend this to anyone.

Heart wrenching and a perfect movie to watch with a friend.