Yesterday I saw
Get Out, the new movie from writer/director Jordan Peele (of Key and Peele). Really enjoyed it. The movie is a horror thriller with some comedic elements mixed in. The hero is a black photographer from the city whose white girlfriend brings him to meet her parents and their rich white friends in the suburbs.
The first half of the movie derives all of its tension from the ordinary terror of being a black dude in a secluded area surrounded by a bunch of white people. I'm not black, but I have to imagine most of what happens in the first half is stuff black dudes go through on a regular basis, only shot and scored in such a way to emphasize the sense of anxiety and dread created by those experiences.
Like I said, the movie also has comedic parts, some big and some small. One small part involves a rich white dude at a dinner party asking the protagonist whether it's now actually an advantage to be black in America. They also shout out all the awval types by having a serial killer whose victims are exclusively black claim that he voted for Obama twice. It's pretty trenchant social commentary. None of the blatantly racist baddies in the movie ever say the n-word or talk directly about master race ****, but you can infer clearly from their actions that they view blacks' proper place as subordinate to whites.
Hopefully without spoiling too much, I can say that the last ten minutes of this movie are an immensely satisfying catharsis that outdoes
Django Unchained. I highly recommend this picture.