Jordan Peele crushes it in his first film.

Rating: 9/10 (4 March 2019)

The film highlights many things that are relevant and prominent issues in our society. This is shown through out the whole course of the film. One example is right when they get there Chris gets weird vibes from the servants of the house and their robotic, emotionless faces when speaking to him. Shortly after Chris has been there, he gets to meet all of Rose's parents friends and family members. Two of the most defining scenes in the movie are when Chris is being hypnotized by Missy and she keeps digging in his mind to make him share an emotional connection from when he was a little boy and he starts to cry because he is back in the moment of when his mom died. Then the camera goes back to the extreme close up of his face with a blank stare and tears dripping from his eyes and jaw dropped as Missy says "Sink" and he just falls into a pit of hopelessness and he is unable to move. The other scene is when all of the relatives are over and he meets Logan King and the interaction is so odd, plain and emotionless. Later in that same setting, Chris is asked if being an African American in the modern day is a disadvantage or advantage. He ends up passing the question off to Logan and he replies that it has "for the most part been very good." Chris rolls his eyes as he nonchalantly pulls out his phone and tries to record his behavior and response but ends up taking a picture with the flash on. Instantly Logan's face goes blank and you see it in his eyes as he almost comes back alive to reality. He instantly looks at Chris as blood is slowly dripping down his face and screams at him to get out. I have seen this scene several times and i still experience chills from head to toe because of the cry for help you hear in his tone of voice is perfect and warns Chris he is in danger. Logan then returns into Missy's office and comes out again emotionless, back stuck in the sunken place. The film does a great job of highlighting prominent societal issues that are present today. This film is a groundbreaking first film for Peele and will be a movie that will be engraved in your head because of how sick and twisted it is. I am excited to see how his future films evolve and turn out.