I liked Green book a lot. I don't really care what anyone thinks. My emotions watching a movie are mine alone.

Depends. If you are "white" its racist. Otherwise not.
Realize that anything you do as a "white" is both racist and privileged.

I was having a lovely day out with a friend and then things turned weirdly toxic out of nowhere.

In a nutshell I said Green Book was quite good.

My "friend" then said its a film that suffers from "white saviour" narration and behind the scenes Don Shirley's family wasnt consulted.

I then said I take the film at face value and unless something "really bad" comes out regarding behind the scenes (ie Polanski, Michael Jackson, Bryan Singer, Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, etc) then I will continue to take that film at face value. In other words I felt the problems highlighted wasn't enough to demonize my enjoyment of the "quite well made/acted" film.

She then highlighted the films inaccuracies.

I then highlighted Blakkklansman's inacurracies and this really wound her up. Flip Zimmerman (Jewish police officer) who infiltrated the clan in the film wasn't even Jewish in real life and his Jewishness is central to Flip's (played by Adam Driver) conflict when infiltrating the clan.

She then said I'm conflating and comparing an innacurate real life Jewish character in a true story to an innacurate black character in another true story and that "it's sad I see the world that way".

I said they're the same issue but she's saying Green Book is worse because Don Shirley is black! Plus Blackkklansmen is directed by Spike Lee whose black so he's allowed more kudos for any innacurate narration in his story.

And then I had the audacity to mention Tony Lip in Green Book wasn't simply white but "Italian American". This made her lose her temper. She kept reducing the argument to black vs white!

While I acknowledged "White" Italian and "white" Jew, I insisted there's more to these characters than the colour of their skin.

And then she accused me of being part of "institutional" racism because I view films through a white priveliged lens.

I then said "and when was the last time you saw a Jamaican/African film"

She said we're talking about Hollywood.

And I reiterated audiences can't be aware of every behind the scenes shenanigans of every film ever made.

I used the French film "The Intouchables" as an example. Basically it's a true story of a wealthy white quadriplegic man who befriends his black carer. It's a heartwarming buddy film that's one of the highest grossing French films of all time.

In the end you find out the REAL carer is Abdel Sellou, a French Algerian arab, so not black.

I then said, while that dampened my enjoyment of the film a little bit (the REAL life Phillipe and Abdel's picture is at the end of the movie) it still wasn't enough to take away my enjoyment from the film, and I simply don't see it as "Uncle Tom racism" or view Omar Sy's character as a "Magical Negro", I view him as a great actor whose "presence" made the character jump off the screen.

Basically she outright called me racist for not putting enough emphasis on the issues she raised on Green Book, and I said mainstream audiences aren't that interested, as proven when I highlighted Blackkklansman where racism is central to the narrative and had similar "accuracy" problems, but because one had a black director and one had a white director, she is clearly picking and choosing which film does racism "right" and which film does racism narrative "wrong".

Also Green Book was only quite good and a bit of a rehash on the Driving Miss Daisy story.

But she shouted at me in the middle of London accusing me of being complicit in the "inadvertent" racism enforced on black people in "white" dominated society.

She then said I need to be less racist.

I said "same with you"