Green Book | Film Review
Hey Guys x This is the second-to-last film that I needed to see before I've seen all of this year's Oscar Best Picture nominees - because it took such a long time to come out in the UK! Nevertheless, I've seen it now and I can't wait to review it! Tony Lip (Viggo Mortensen) is an Italian-American bouncer with a tendency to solve his problems with violence. After finding himself unemployed, he takes a job as a driver for Dr. Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali), an African-American pianist who is touring the Deep South. While at first these two seem like complete opposites, they manage to develop a friendship while dealing with cultural differences and prevalent racism in 1962. I was surprised by how much I liked this film. When a film comes out and instantly gets loads of accolades before being released to the general public, sometimes that means that it speaks more to critics than to audiences, which can also tend to be the case with widely nominated films. Fortunately...