Perfect Best Picture this year! Appealing to the emotions as well as the eye.

Rating: 10/10 (2 March 2019)

Well I was dubious to know if it really is something worth of Best Picture this year. Then I had already read several articles on Academy playing safe, being biased etc. about 'Green book'. But me & my wife still were interested & decided to give it a watch for ourselves. It turned out to be one of the best movie experiences we had.
This movie is lovely. Viggo Mortensen a working-class Italian-American bouncer cum Driver is outstanding. We liked him so much that we believe he should probably have won Best Actor. But yeah Rami Malek has gone through several transformations and literally lived Freddie Mercury on screen so no complains. Mahershala Ali as an African-American classical pianist is so convincing, you feel as if this role was meant for only him. No wonder he won his 2nd Oscar this year.
The screenplay is apt. The 2 hours plus run time felt gone without realizing. The friendship that these two main characters develop on the journey is such a joy to watch. So, the scenes with injustices makes you disturbed on what life that would have been in those times.