Green Book is feel-good liberal hogwash, a 'white saviour' fantasy that does nothing to examine the structures of racism and prejudice in America (or elsewhere), writes karlkwin
Was Green Book the best film of the year? Not on your nelly. Was it even the best among this crop? Again, no way. But it may just have been the least divisive. Roma had the double stigma of Netflix and subtitles. The Favourite's liberal use of the C-bomb will have appalled as many as it delighted. Plenty of people still think superhero movies are inherently inferior and Spike Lee is a polemicist whose fury infuses every frame of his sometimes heavy-handed film.
It might have risen to the top of the pile simply by being a consistent top-two or -three pick. As other films fell away in the preferential voting by which best picture is decided, it is possible that it simply did a Bradbury and stayed upright long enough to claim the prize. Because the votes are secret, we'll probably never know. is understandable , even if his film was never likely to win.
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