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They Came At Night

Westley Smith

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In the five years since the fateful and horrific night that changed her life, Sandra Leigh has kept...

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A Yorkshire Sketchbook

David Hockney

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In recent years David Hockney has returned to England to paint the landscape of his childhood in...

Zorro: The Novel

Isabel Allende and Margaret Sayers Peden

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Bestselling author Isabel Allende's first adult novel since 'Portrait in Sepia' - beautiful,...

Detroit Stories by Alice Cooper

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Named for the city that launched the original Alice Cooper group on the road to success, “Detroit...

Jarom Solar Norris (177 KP) rated Green Book (2018) in Movies

Nov 9, 2018 (Updated Feb 13, 2019)

Green Book was an interesting movie. The story of two men from completely different cultures coming together and teaching each other on a long road trip was fun all by itself. Add on top of it the stories of race: the uneducated white man getting more respect than the talented black man, the white man fitting into black places while the black man is rejected from white ones, and the white man’s struggle to comprehend black discrimination. There’s some power behind seeing a talented, educated man be personally invited and praised by the wealthy and elite and invited into their homes, and then be told he can’t use their bathroom due to the color of his skin.

My problems with this movie are also related: I feel like it focuses too much on the white man’s story and perspective of the black man’s struggles. Which, while it has its merits, still kind of feels like it misses a point. The fact that Viggo Mortensen gets nominated for “Lead Role” awards in a movie about a black man’s problems while Mahershala Ali gets “Supporting Role” feels wrong somehow, but that’s how the story was told. Still, overall the movie is fun to watch, both actors are amazing, and it makes you think and feel and hopefully makes you aware of discrimination, both historically and modernly.