Was pretty good

Rating: 6/10 (9 March 2018)

I liked the visual style of the movie, but wasn't too excited about the screenplay. A quick summary: A black man is dating a white girl... they go to a southern town to meet her parents who he thinks will be racist, but she tells him they won't be. While there, he meets a lot of their white family and friends who think black people are physically stronger, more agile in things like jiu jitsu, and are better endowed than white people. We learn that the mother can hypnotize people and allows her racist white friends to live in the black bodies they desire to. In this movie, the white people are racists who think black people are physically superior, literally not figurative. One time, the white girl laughs and blushes because her family is 'so white'. He laughs it off and says it's all good. To me, it felt a bit shallow. I understand that in our current culture, this is more permissible than the opposite, but Jordan, the director, needs to understand that he's raising a generation of movie goers of the opposite race on the same thing he grew up on, only the opposite. White kids are going to think that being white automatically makes them guilty and physically inferior. From his point of view, it's probably not much compared to the racism he grew up on, but still, the kids watching this movie didn't do those things to him. Feels like he's taking the racism dialogue in the wrong direction. He did a good job on the shot composition, color correction, music, etc, but he needs to find more elegant solutions to address the racial inequality he sees around him.