Coming to this review of Green Book days into the film’s theatrical release and months after its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, you've likely heard about some of the problems Peter Farrelly’s inversion of Driving Miss Daisy poses to the enlightened critic. Written and directed by white dudes, told from the perspective of an Italian-American hired as the chauffeur of a black concert pianist, and leading to a coda where the aesthete is a surprise guest at a reformed racist family’s dinner, Green Book is a cornucopia of problematics—a film which, from the outside at least, reeks of the pungence of white guilt. And we might ask, in a time where the discourse is so heavily influenced by future awards: what more attractive aroma lurks in the air?That Green Book flips the archetypes of a more regressive version of itself is almost besides the point.
- 12/5/2018
- MUBI
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