Race Horror Movie

Rating: 7/10 (13 June 2017)

The movie was pretty good. For once a black character survives a horror movie and is the hero. I went into it thinking it was just going to be a regular horror movie without much social commentary which in retrospect was dumb. There's a lot to think about in this movie, and it's good for either close inspection or a cheap watch.
The Asian character shows that Asians are either a model minority that is almost as privileged as whites (which as an Asian I don't think is true) or that Asians are not allies for black people. I know in an interview they said the Asian was to show the spread of the coagulant group, but they could have just used an Australian or a European if they didn't want the movie to be about Asians. Alternatively the Asian asked if it was better to be black as if he thought being black would be an advantage to his current race in today's society. This scene is something they could have improved on.
The mind control was unnecessary. The movie could have cut it out entirely and used hypnotism as the explanation. Instead it tried to convince you that people had 2 brains put inside their heads. But a shared brain surgery doesn't make sense (where would the second brain fit?). I think it was trying to say that black people are being convinced that racism doesn't even exist anymore and that they're betraying their own race by arguing against black rights movements. Modern racism is mind controlling people so it's almost like a white person inhabiting a black person's body.
Or they just don't want to rock the boat and want to try to be happy with the amount of racism in the world. If we ignore that the Grandma was controlling Georgina, symbolically she's like a black woman who doesn't want to fight the system. The most she could do to help Chris was open the little door in Rosa's room. Even though she could be awake at night she couldn't walk to Chris to warn him.
I don't know if making Rosa into a bad guy was to make the story make more sense or to say that even white allies are not entirely on the sides of black rights. Rosa and many of the other black people just fetishized black men. I'm sure many black men don't think this is a problem for them though. Or they think that their white girlfriend is the exception.
It was also interesting thinking about the questions the people at the auction asked. They wanted to know if Chris' body would be suitable for their own now that they were old. But when white people talk about Tiger woods or Obama when they first meet a black person it means they still see the person's race first. Those conversations actually do happen IRL. Only one person talks to Chris about his photography even though he's carrying a camera around. And that was because he wanted Chris' body thinking it would give him talent for photography.