Maya Angelou once remarked that northern whites and southern whites react differently to blacks but not in the way you’d expect.
Southern whites she said don’t like blacks as a group, but as individuals. IOW, you can have black friends and neighbors.
Northern whites she said like blacks as a group, but not as individuals. IOW, not next door......................
The party of the Ku Klux Klan.
The party of the Ku Klux Klan.
Liberals view blacks as property. THEIR property.
Excellent post. Tommy should have a larger platform to spread his message - I think Team Trump should get him a place in the Administration...
p.s. “Bill Idol, Eyes without a face” playing in the background during the video - Billy Idol/ Tommy Sotomayor ping!
Thank you for posting.
The movie addresses racism and stereotypes from both sides. It seems fairly apolitical. But the commentary is an interesting take.
Race is obviously a big theme for the film, but it is not exclusively about race. Race is more of a backdrop. Betrayal, trust, hypnotism, and intrigue are all part of the story.
There’s even a bit of comedy. Not enough to call this a horror-comedy as some have. But some of the exaggerated stereotypes are funny.
The timing and pacing of the thrills and chills are right on the mark.
Certainly not a film told from a Christian worldview. The societal acceptance of interracial dating is addressed. Premarital sex is treated as normative (much as our culture does). According to the review at Plugged in Online the film has...
“More than 50 f-words and about 45 s-words. We also hear ‘a—,’ ‘b—ch,’ ‘d—n,’ ‘h-—’ and ‘n-—er.’ God’s name is misused about a dozen times, twice with the word ‘d—n’.”
This is the directorial debut of comedienne and actor, Jordan Peele.
I saw this movie, as a horror-drama-comedy, not for political purposes.
And while i found it refreshing that the villains were not trump supporters or “conservative christians”, I would not say it was a political movie.
The people were ‘liberal’ in one sense, but that comes across as more of a cover than a real viewpoint. They were more of a moral-less rich privileged class of people deciding they are worth more than everybody else because they have the power.
There was a “view” of blacks projected by the antagonists of the movie, but it was presented as a “fad”, and the suggestion was that whites had been similarly treated (although probably due to some shortcuts in story-telling, that idea that blacks became the “in” thing falls apart when you sit at the end and look back at the movie.
I do highly recommend this movie. The acting is good, there are no messages that will make your blood boil, the conclusion is not immediately obvious, and I fell in love with the TSA agent.