Week03: Politics in Media

The movie titled “Green Book” is a real black travel guide in history. In 1962, the white supremacy movement set off another climax in the United States. The black postman Victor Hugo Green wrote a pamphlet that pointed out which hotels and restaurants allowed black people to stay and eat. The name Green in the booklet “Green Book” is taken from Green, and it seems to adopt the meaning of green symbolizing unobstructedness. The two male protagonists of the film drove this green paper to tour around the United States. A male protagonist is the famous black musician Tang, and the other is a white Tony who is in a nightclub. He is called to be Tang’s driver. The contrast between skin color and cultural accomplishment naturally produces some wonderful reactions during the journey. In addition, the film also shows many levels of entanglement: racial discrimination, inequality of the same race, master and servant, the social status of musicians, family relations and so on.

This movie is my favorite among many movies about race. It can also be seen that talking about political issues in the media is very inflammatory. Let the people in it empathize with each other, thereby triggering people’s empathy and trying to change deep-rooted political issues. However, the political stance in some film and television works only represents the author, for example, some works contain obscure racial discrimination. This requires the audience to have independent cognitive abilities, and more importantly, the author should have a good political outlook. Because there are children in the audience, this subtle influence will make people form deep-rooted political ideas. So I think it is advisable to add political elements to the media, but it must be correct.

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