Jordan Peele Now a Major Player in Directing Game

Rating: 8/10 (6 March 2017)

Months before the official trailers were released someone sent me a trailer of this movie. After seeing that the writer and director was Jordan Peele I thought that it was a joke. Jordan Peele is a comedian so this must be some spoof trailer for his show Key and Peele. Then months passed and the official trailer was out. No. It's not a joke. This movie is very real and it's not a comedy.
A young black man, Chris (Daniel Kaluuya), goes to visit the parents of his white girlfriend, Rose (Alison Williams). Already tense enough due to the uncertainty of how his girlfriend's parents will receive him, he finds that many of Rose's parents make racially insensitive comments and the few other black people around behave very strangely. Just why they behave so strange is the mystery that Chris sets out to uncover.
This movie wasn't so much a horror as it was a thriller. It did have its jump scares and an eerie feel to it but I still wouldn't classify it as a scary movie. The performances were on point and the story itself was intriguing. This was a movie in which you could view for simple entertainment or look deeper and make parallels between it and real life. Already there are several articles pointing out some interesting symbolism.
I appreciated both: the entertainment value and some of the deeper meanings to the film. It was well thought out and mixed the pace quite nicely. There was a steady diet of mysterious content interspersed with genuine comedy with a blanket of creepiness over the entire dish. Jordan Peele just made himself a legitimate player in the writing and directing game.