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it s the way we face the things that make us uncomfortable, the things that make us afraid, and it gives us tools to go on and deal with these fears in the future. people are flipping out over this movie about how good it is. is it gory? i want to see it. i want to support brother peele. it s like being pliplayed up as a guess who s coming to dinner meets stepford wives. what he did is brilliant and smart, a psychological thriller. he almost is trojan horsing people to get into the theater because it s being marketed as a horror film, but on the other hand, he subverts and gets into a lot of other deeper issues. so once he s got you hooked he s breaking down the white liberal elite, racism of the white liberal elite, debunking the whole postracial america theme, and then he gets into slave and black men and kind of this phenomenon of missing black men