Really nice film

Rating: 10/10 (24 January 2019)

I kind of went into this thinking the issue of racism would dominate and there wold be a lot of those "important" messages. It doesn't. The film is about how friendship can transgress boundaries of race, colour, ethnicity. It reminds me a lot of the stories on how the British got Ian Paisley to talk to Martin McGuinness at the height of the troubles in Ireland and their animosity to one another. They made them share the same car. The Green Book is a similar journey and along the way says something important. That we are social beings and a lot of the differences we see between us are contrived and of lessor importance. Watch out for the scene where they argue about who is more black.