Driving Miss Daisy in Reverse gear- Superb!

Rating: 10/10 (24 January 2019)

My Review-
This is the best film of the year as far as I'm concerned and deserves the 5 Academy Award nominations it' nominated for,in fact I'll go as far as to say it should win all five, if I had a vote Green Book would win Best Film, Best Actor,Best Supporting Actor, Best Director and Best Screenplay.
Why? Because It's the most touching and revealing story of two human beings ,poles apart in every way who experience through the challenging experiences of racial prejudice and more importantly their own personal perceptions and prejudices of each other in the America of the mid 1960's ,two very different halves of a nation that is still divided in 2019.
I couldn't help comparing this movie to the great film of 1989 ,Bruce Beresford 'S classic Driving Miss Daisy ,except in Green Room their driving in reverse gear with Viggo Mortensen in role of Tony Lip ,a tough Italian rough diamond who's racial ignorance is truly shown early in the movie when he returns home to his lovely wife Dolores,played beautifully by Linda Cardellini to find 2 coloured plumbers in his home.
Out of sheer economic desperation after being laid off from his job he applies and accepts a position as driver for Dr Don Shirley,a classical and high brow jazz pianist impeccably played by Marhershala Ali,and they set off on a concert tour of America's Deep South ,where the title of the movie is revealed and says it all.
Tony's employer and passenger is Don Shirley a elegant,cultured ,talented and incredibly wealthy Afro American concert pianist who is lonely and isolated from the reality of racial prejudice in New York society,totally opposite to Tony ,who has a loving family ,uneducated,can barely write a letter to his wife and comes out with every racial stereotype comment not through hate but just plain ignorance.
The journey the two men embark on has a destination more than just the red neck bigoted towns they arrive in ,when they return home they both have arrived at the most important destination, a better knowledge of themselves and their humanity and a better grasp of the defects
of character that have held them both back all their lives,it bought a tear to my eye and that's why it should win the 5 Academy Awards its nominated for, it's a rare and splendid movie.