walk don't run!

Rating: 10/10 (2 December 2017)

this is a small masterpiece, very well crafted the aesthetic and the mood starts out as a typical comedy with black actors and some elements of horror i watched the movie on DVD and didn't know anything about it really judging from the cover i thought i would watch a "so bad its actually good" flick with overacting and familiar toilet humor i got a lot more than what i has bargained for all the clichés in movies especially comedies with black actors are here, the scared black man, the white man trying to act politically correct, the obese funny but silly best friend and an antagonist, the mother, portrayed by an actress more often playing a mature but sexually charged leading lady with a slightly brown skin tone than a villain all the clichés are here only to be reversed during the second half of the movie we don't have a dark or ambiguous ending but a very cathartic one justifyingly following the disturbing sci-fi climax as a Greek citizen who has lived among foreigners in another European country for several months in the past, its funny but i could actually relate to both white and black characters i have been both racist and a victim of racism on several occasions so that at least to a small extent i know how it feels both when you look down upon someone and when you are looked down upon as a mostly Caucasian male with dark hair and a not so light complexion, coming from a small Balkan country i am entertained at how the movie has obviously irritated some people which validates its intended polarizing power and i also liked the fact that the writer didn't jump on the anti-trump train but instead subtly satirized Obama's politics which becomes more on-point as the original premise of the film is that classic 60s movie with Sidney Poitier aka the first on screen Obama offered to the audiences worldwide there is a truth that resonates in this seemingly otherworldly entertaining movie and i was more that happy to listen to it and reflect on it PS i haven't seen anyone referencing rosemary's baby one of the many nods to challenging horror movies of the past within the film interestingly enough, Polanski has depicted paranoia in another film of his in a similar to Get Out racially charged manner in The Tenant as a Polish (aka white but Slavic) man portrayed by Polansky himself located in an unfriendly towards emigrants Paris in the 1970s and accompanied by an indifferent and emotionally cold french girlfriend 10/10