When “Green Book” premiered at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, the response to it was ecstatic.
Audiences gave it rapturous ovations and voted it their favorite movie of the festival, and critics swooned.
Many of us felt that “Green Book,” directed with grace and crack timing by Peter Farrelly (from a script he co-wrote with Nick Vallelonga and Brian Hayes Currie), was a crowd-pleaser in the best way — a feel-good movie, yes, but one built around a series of honest observations about what it showed you.
The dialogue went ping without calling attention to itself, and you could easily show the movie in a master class for acting.That said, there’s no denying that the tropes that thread through “Green Book” have been around a long time.
It’s a buddy movie.
And a road movie.
And a Hollywood liberal message movie, set in the days of Civil Rights and Jim Crow,
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