MAHERSHALA ALI DESERVED THAT OSCAR!

Rating: 10/10 (2 December 2019)

Green Book is a very important movie! Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line, relied on a guide called The Negro Motorist Green Book.
I didn't know anything before watching the movie, I knew I had been nominated for an Oscar and had Mahershala Ali, and what I saw was an indescribable surprise.
The two main characters Tony Lip and Dr. Donald Shirley lived respectively by Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali are very interesting and even if you are not interested in them at first, they get deeper and more interesting with each scene.
The humor in this movie is excellent, it does not compromise the tension and in some scenes I would even say it increases, I had not realized that the director of this movie was Peter Farrelly, who wrote dumb and dumber and There's Something About Mary, two films that I personally find hilarious.
The cinematography here is wonderful, the shots taken by car are beautiful, making good use of the landscapes along with the contrast of the blue car.
On the racial issue I found it very well posed, with some dialogs at the end that are arguably expository but I understand why they exist. Peter Farrelly here can capture small racist gestures that you can do everyday and not even realize.
The movie is amazing and I see nothing of it that can take your 10. 10/10