One of the important aspect of a good movie is the way that the tone is set by the use of different scenes. It structures the movie and yields the viewer’s attitude if they want to stop or keep watching it. The movie starts with an opening scene of the couple driving to her parents’ house and while driving, the couple hit a deer and the amount of blood splattered all over their car’s headlights. When the cop arrived, Chris is sitting on the car’s hood while his girlfriend sparks an argument with the patrolman called to the scene. The cop asks for the license, only it wasn’t for Rose but he asked for Chris even though he wasn’t the one who was driving, and that was the first red signal that the audience can sense. This is one of the first scenes
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Chris was in no fault at all but him riding with a white girl in a white neighborhood where he wasn’t supposed to be caused the cop to question him. In the interview with Entertainment Weekly, the director states, “What the movie was originally focused on was pulling back the layers to reveal that racism, in fact, does exist,… and there are people who live every day in fear of it in some form or another, be it on a subtle level or extreme level”. The film tries to bring out these small details into a bigger picture. One of the reason the cop scene was extremely important, was to emphasize the police brutality that is going on currently in the real world. Throughout the whole film, a weakness that recurred was the false kindness that white people expressed to Chris. Even though Peele was trying to show that whites tend to treat blacks like a curiosity instead of equal human beings, still at times it felt like he was over exaggerating by implying that whites still act like slave orders. Another weakness that can be considered is the unrealistic idea of transplanting a brain into better …show more content…
One of the prominent example of the symbolism that was very clear to the viewers was when Rose’s family had a silent bingo game going on during their family get together. To an outsider, it would feel like it is just any usual bingo game. In reality, the audience can feel how the bingo was more like an auction showing how people were bidding to get Chris’ body. It reminds people of the history of United States and how scary it would be if people did this right now. It also gives people a different perspective on the things that are faced by colored men currently. Another scene that was shown in the movie was when Chris was hypnotized, and tied down to a chair before his brain extraction. He was forced to put cotton balls in his ears from the chair that he was sitting in. This symbolizes how black people are tied down to picking cotton and they can’t get away because of the oppression. Out of these metaphors, one of the most important image that makes a huge impact on a viewer is when Chris is put into a “Sunken Place” after being hypnotized. He was put under the control of Rose’s mother and it shows how white people generally control everything. Like Jordan Peele said, “The Sunken Place means we're marginalized. No matter how hard we scream, the system silences us.” The system is what silences people and he was trying to portray how the colored people sink
Chris was in no fault at all but him riding with a white girl in a white neighborhood where he wasn’t supposed to be caused the cop to question him. In the interview with Entertainment Weekly, the director states, “What the movie was originally focused on was pulling back the layers to reveal that racism, in fact, does exist,… and there are people who live every day in fear of it in some form or another, be it on a subtle level or extreme level”. The film tries to bring out these small details into a bigger picture. One of the reason the cop scene was extremely important, was to emphasize the police brutality that is going on currently in the real world. Throughout the whole film, a weakness that recurred was the false kindness that white people expressed to Chris. Even though Peele was trying to show that whites tend to treat blacks like a curiosity instead of equal human beings, still at times it felt like he was over exaggerating by implying that whites still act like slave orders. Another weakness that can be considered is the unrealistic idea of transplanting a brain into better …show more content…
One of the prominent example of the symbolism that was very clear to the viewers was when Rose’s family had a silent bingo game going on during their family get together. To an outsider, it would feel like it is just any usual bingo game. In reality, the audience can feel how the bingo was more like an auction showing how people were bidding to get Chris’ body. It reminds people of the history of United States and how scary it would be if people did this right now. It also gives people a different perspective on the things that are faced by colored men currently. Another scene that was shown in the movie was when Chris was hypnotized, and tied down to a chair before his brain extraction. He was forced to put cotton balls in his ears from the chair that he was sitting in. This symbolizes how black people are tied down to picking cotton and they can’t get away because of the oppression. Out of these metaphors, one of the most important image that makes a huge impact on a viewer is when Chris is put into a “Sunken Place” after being hypnotized. He was put under the control of Rose’s mother and it shows how white people generally control everything. Like Jordan Peele said, “The Sunken Place means we're marginalized. No matter how hard we scream, the system silences us.” The system is what silences people and he was trying to portray how the colored people sink