After hearing about this film for a whole year, I decided to give the film an opportunity in my busy schedule, so I had very high expectations, were they fulfilled? I would have to say no, but it would be better if I did not hurry...

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Year: 2017
Category: Horror.
Director: Jordan Peele.
Cast: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, Caleb Landry Jones, Stephen Root, Lakeith Stanfield, Catherine Keener.

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Plot

A young afro-american man decides to travel to a house far away from the city to meet the parents of his girlfriend, who belongs to a family made up exclusively of white people, and who do not know that the relationship his daughter has is with an afro-american.

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Opinion

Chris decides to go with his girlfriend Rose to a residence located in the woods and away from everything, in order to meet her parents, the Armitage, who do not know that he is an afro-american, which is why he feels fear of the reaction they might have. However, when he finally meets them, they clear up any fears he had, since Rose's parents present themselves as liberals, lovers of cultural diversity, who imply that the present is a post-racial era, and that they are and faithful followers and voters of Obama, for which they would vote a third time if that possibility existed, and who they consider the best president they have seen.

However, Chris begins to suspect that something is wrong, the parents of his girlfriend have two afro-american employees performing all domestic services, which maintain an exaggeratedly strange and abnormal behavior. Later, an incident between Chris and Rose's mother, Missy, make him know that this time things are not right, and that there is something really bad hidden under all that atmosphere of kindness.

Then, the viewer can witness a very unlikely outcome, which seemed quite forced and even fictional, since all the darkness that seemed to hide under the family's kindness, really turns out to be a very extravagant and unsustainable "experiment", of those that when you see them you ask yourself: What the hell were the writers thinking when they wrote this?

On the other hand, one thing that I can say that I liked about the movie, was that initial sequence, in which at the very beginning of the film, we see an afro-american, walking through a suburb while talking to his girlfriend with the phone, but when he finishes the call, a car appears, and begins to stalk him, until finally he kidnaps him. All that sequence, which is recorded in one shot, was really something very well done, in which the movement of the camera is fluid and serves to show us the terror that the character suffers at that precise moment.

As for the performances, I must say that Daniel Kaluuya does a good job, almost all the weight of the film falls on his performance. Allison Williams, on the other hand, does a regular job, nothing remarkable but not pathetic. Bradley Whitford and Caleb Landry Jones do an acceptable job, however, it seems to me that MeCatherine Keener is the one who could not hold the level, because I think she did an uninteresting performance, her dialogues are the lowest level, even when she had more scenes than some others, she could not get more out of that. The rest of the performances are of medium quality, this is not a film that stands out for its excellent performances.

Although I expected much more from this film, I must admit that by the standards established by the rest of the films in the genre, the film can surpass that average even though I consider it overrated.

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Trailer