Because I am human nothing human is alien to me. (Spoilers at the end)

Rating: Null/10 (21 December 2018)

Green Book is a very typical film by how you see it, a poor working class Italian is paid to drive a rich black classically trained piano player around the deep south of the USA while it is still normal with racism.
But the movie knows that it's a cliché, and it constantly rewards you for guessing right and makes you smile when it takes a turn you didn't see coming.
The movie is serious in how it is played out and that is what makes it a good comedy to me. The jokes are mostly referring to what happened before.
If you have grown up a little rough you can get the character of Tony and his ways, "It isn't stealing if the rock lies on the ground." and even if you don't get it I think you would come to like him by the end.
The same goes for Shirley who starts off being very aloof and hard to like because he appears so snobby but by the end he shows off a side where you finally understand him to a whole new point and you are happy to see how they end up treating one another.
The racism in the movie feels realistic in that not everyone is a redneck, they are just set in their ways and most people don't go out of their ways to be racist and even when they get angry it is because they have been wronged most of the time.
To me this movies way of treating racism is the best I have seen in a very long time because it didn't take sides and it wasn't about racism but it always came back to it. Just like taxes and death, back in those days you needed a handbook to know where to be safe and the movie really pulls that aspect off.
The music in this movie is incredible and I found myself tapping along with the music in one way or another, the classical, the radio and the bar music.
It had soul and it felt good.
!!Spoilers!!
There was a scene in the movie which sum up the movie in a very simple way where Tony tells Shirley that he is blacker than Shirley because he knows the culture, grew up on the streets and is a worker having to constantly work to pay for his family. It really puts it into perspective that things are not all about skin color, race or where you grew up, it is all a part of you and you are not less black because you are rich, and you're not more happy because you are rich neither. It all comes down to everything that makes you, You. That you can relate to anyone if you only talk to them for a while.
"Because I am human nothing human is alien to me."