The best defense of Hollywood is that they give the same bowdlerized, feel-good treatment to basically any controversial subject matter.
Also kind of funny that a lot of people adopted Blackkklansman as the counterpoint to Green Book. Especially in a year that had Sorry To Bother You and Blindspotting.
Thats true, but there is a pretty specific current that the Oscars in particular have carried with them in regard to how they confront race related issues. Be it Driving Ms. Daisy, Glory, The Help, Green Book, or Crash. It's feel-good treatment, but it's who that feel-good treatment is tailored to and how it manifests itself.
Though I suspect in all those cases it obviously has to do with the underlying dynamics within Hollywood and the Academy and who they have mostly perceived as their core audience(white people) and who makes up their voting block in the awards process(older white guys).
Though I agree with Blackkklansman, it was solid, but either of those films, and I would add Sweet Country to that list as well, were better films that played with a lot of the same themes. Though I think of it as being a counterpoint has less to do with merit(since no one of note really believes the Oscars are truly merit based) and more to do with the parallel between Do the Right Thing and Driving Miss Daisy and Blackkklansman and basically the Farrelly remake of the film.
