Saturday, November 24, 2018

Green Book: Driving Dr. Shirley

The Movie Slut can understand comparisons between Green Book and the 1989 flick, Driving Miss Daisy. Only here there's a white guy behind the wheel and a black guy in the back seat.

But the Movie Slut thinks this new movie has more in common with A Walk on the Moon. Both films are set in the 1960s, an era when the times were a-changing and changing with the times proved more difficult for some people than others.

The movies have another commonality: Viggo Mortensen. He stars in both films.

Here Mortensen is a lovable thuggish bouncer who takes a job driving and protecting an African-American piano virtuoso ( Mahershala Ali) on on tour of the Deep Douth. Along the way this odd couple finds their common humanity.

Some critics complained about the predictability of it all. The Movie Slut does not agree. She thinks like A Walk on the Moon, Green Book is a must-see.

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