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**SUPER HUGE SPOILERS** Don’t read this comment if you are going to see Get Out (which I highly recommend). Seriously, DONT READ THIS unless you’ve seen it...
It says a whole lot about America that most Black peoples’ experiences in regular life were finally accurately displayed in the context of a horror film.
This! And *SPOILERS* by the end of the movie, you realize that so much of what seemed like tone-deaf behavior in Rose and her parents was actually a purposeful ruse to make Chris believe that even if the situation seemed “off”, that was well-meaning racial friction and not flat out white supremacy. Like Rose’s whole…
In Brazil we don’t strictly follow the “one drop rule”, and prejudice is more based on visual perception. Even if people knows you are of African ancestry, as long as you can pass as white, or is a light skinned mixed person, you are pretty much shielded from most of the effects of racism. To give you a proper…
How does racism work in Brazil vs. US?
Jordan Peele’s a black man with a white mom who married a white woman (Chelsea Peretti) and works in a predominantly white industry. He must have some keen observations to dig into in order to get to that place that I can’t even imagine.
This movie is perfect. I saw it in a theater of mostly white people (I am white) and as I was leaving, a white woman behind me opined “I get the commentary, but what is he offering up as a solution?”
It was our lives up there.
Such an amazing film. I got to see it a week early and it’s been hard to keep all my thoughts to myself.
Freedoms that make white people uncomfortable aren’t real freedoms. Study it out.