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Green Book Movie Review - Delightfully Colourful
Updated On: 22 November, 2018 05:18 PM IST | | Johnson Thomas
Both Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali ace their roles. Their crafty precision lends nuance and pathos to the interactions and the humour that springs forth is also quite rousing.
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Mahershala Ali in a still from the trailer
Green Book
U/A: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Director: Peter Farrelly
Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini, Sebastian Maniscalco
Rating: 
A world class African American virtuoso pianist Dr. Don Shirley( Mahershala Ali) gets a tough-talking Italian bouncer, Tony 'Lip' Vallelonga(Viggo Mortensen) as driver cum bodyguard for a concert tour into the Deep South in 1962 - in an era where racism and segregation are the norm. It's a sort of 'Driving Miss Daisy' mixed up with 'The King's Speech' and the resultant is a delightfully colourful road trip that forges grudging acceptance and respect for each other's point of view. Getting a white man to play the employee to the Black man's employer is a sort of formula in itself - A mismatched buddy set forced together by circumstances beyond their control. They are from opposite backgrounds, have contrasting personalities and their getting thrown together under unusual circumstances delivers the kind of volatility the makers were looking for.
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