Can’t be a Jag on the field if you’re a jagoff it.

The rule is the Jags can’t have nice things.

There’s also the convenient fact that Chris didn’t have parents to come looking for him when he went missing. If you’re picking out people who are easy to abduct, not having any close family (to put pressure on the police and organize a search) would be an important qualifier.

A couple things noticed by my wife and me*:

I believe Rose intentionally targeted people who had bad habits (i.e. smoking, nail biting). That way the dad could tell the same bullshit story “I used to have the bad habit of X, but then my wife hypnotized me. Now when I even think about it, it makes me want to throwup.” Probably used that line to get a lot of the…

I liked how the dad went on a long rant about his violent hatred of deer. He dies from Chris impaling him with a deer’s head.

That, I thought was a really nice touch, and I think it had something to do with both the notion of Asians as the model minority, and about how money buys privilege.

The car he escapes in is the same car that pulls up next to Andre at the beginning (the brother’s car). The brother talks about putting Chris in a rear choke/headlock at the dinner table - the same move that took down Andre.

Also with this scene: the main character frees himself by literally picking cotton. A+ Peele.

Agreed. I was impressed with the scene where she is on the phone with Rod and her voice is inflecting panic and concern over Chris being missing but her face was totally impassive. That would be tough to do (I may have tried doing this after watching the movie).

I totally didn’t get the Grandma/Grandpa thing at the time because of the way they acted like servants. I couldn’t wrap my head around it because I kept thinking they were simply robotic slaves. Do you think they were just acting to keep up appearances around Chris, or was simply seeing another black person also…

Also, shout out to Alison Williams’ performance. Even when we saw the old photos, I assumed she was getting hypnotized to have all of her past interests wiped from her memory right up until the bit with the keys. And she made a great determined psychopath at the end, would like to see her in more roles like that.

When Rod is at Chris’s apartment trying to call his cell phone and gets Rose instead, there’s an ad for the United Negro College Fund playing on TV. The slogan, “A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste,” sounds a lot more sinister in context.

In an earlier scene, he bends his head all the way down to his wrist and tries to chew the restraints off. The whole point of that was just to demonstrate that he could in fact reach his ears with his fingers.

I was thinking to myself that that was kind of the ultimate horror. After all he’s been through, all he’s lost, all that’s been done to him, now he’s faced with the “mundane” horror of being in a HORRIBLY compromising position with a nervous white racist cop pointing a gun at him. I was saying to myself. “It’s over.…

I was 110% sure that the cop at the end was going to kill him and bad would prevail, Dogville-style.

The thing that struck me was the end when the police car pulls up. Usually in a horror movie the police showing up is a sign that the ordeal is finally over. However, in this movie when the cop car pulls up there was a big groan in the audience. Everyone knew that there was no way that the police would believe…

Someone on a forum I go to pointed out how Rose’s defense of Chris to the cop in the beginning was a clue that something wasn’t right due to her not wanting the cops to have a record that Chris was out there since.... well.. you know.

The top comment on the reddit discussion thread for the movie noted that Chris escaped the basement by literally picking cotton. If that’s intentional, and I’m inclined to believe it is...brilliant.

“There’s a piece of [my mother] in this kitchen”