How to address race. The elephant in the room!

Rating: 9/10 (30 January 2019)

This is pure genius film making to me. Movies like this crush the entertainment value of a lot of high-budget blockbuster style movies, because the acting is on point throughout the movie, and it addresses thought provoking social issues that a lot of people deal with on a day to day basis.
I have seen anything from Jordan Peele that I haven't like in the past. In fact I always get a sense of originality and executed timing with his comedy and this movie certainly follows suit in a horror aspect. The quality of the acting and chemistry amongst the characters clearly stems from the directors passion on the subject of racism. For Jordan you can see the racism he deals with in life isn't white people chasing after him with pitch forks, looking to do physical harm to him, but it's the complete opposite. Peele appears to draw from his real life experiences where people of non-black races try to be overly nice to him and overstep certain boundaries trying to recognize him as an African American and that makes him feel socially awkward. The film addresses many social stereotypes on the social awkwardness of different coloured skin people fitting in together. Watching this movie it is quite evident to me that we just haven't figured it out as a society how everyone can be satisfied with our interactions amongst each other. We certainly know that it's unacceptable for different coloured people to be violent and hateful towards each other. This film addresses that it's not appropriate for non-African-American people to address any black-stereotypes, and we hear so often "treat everyone equally," but that's sort of an oxymoron as well because people of the same colour don't treat everyone inside of that one colour equally as it is and combine that with the fact that people are encouraged to be proud of their culture and personal colour, and the result is that in North American culture their really is no "Right way" for different coloured people to appropriately interact amongst each other.
To wrap it up the directing, acting, chemistry amongst the cast, shots and set is all great. Really original movie and well worth watching.