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This is:

a) a great movie
b) distressing as fuck

But more distressing by far is the dumb nomination of the movie as a comedy by the Golden Globes. I get it, the Golden Globes is dumb as fuck anyway, but in this case, it really means, "We didn't watch your movie, black man, but you're a comic, right? So we'll nominate it, whatever" or "We watched it, black man, and so we're gonna nominate it as a comedy because it's hilariously silly!"

“We’re watching a movie that challenges us to think about toxic whiteness and we can’t properly process it so it’s a comedy.”

Horror is always under comedy because horror gets no respect and doesn’t have a category.

They didn’t put it there for laffs. This particular situation is not unique or weirdly, tangentially racist.

It's probably a little racist.

My understanding is that the golden globe people don't do the classification, it is the studio submitting the film. Also the golden globes have a history of the comedy winner not being a comedy. Studios submit anything that they don't think will win drama.

The Martian won it a couple of years ago.

It doesn't make it less problematic.

Just because it's the studio making the classification doesn't make it any less racist. Also stupid because it's not like the Golden Globes can't go "we really need a horror/sci-fi/nontraditional drama category."

This is a really stupid thing to be discussing.

Or in other words, it's Hollywood.

Anyway, it's a good movie. Maybe a great one.

I'm gonna go with good, rather than great. I think as a piece of commentary it's great. As a movie it's not something I'll rewatch often.

Based on Jordan Peele not having had any reputation as anything other than a comic, I think it's greatness is mostly in being completely surprised by how good it is (and also how it's not really a comedy). I agree with schild, good movie with great commentary.

Yeah. It doesn't have an extraordinarily original plot structure or visual style, so...good and relevant.

Made me feel very tense. Kind of like a bookend to "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?": the first was an optimistic drawing-room comedy-drama, the second a pessimistic coda to why that shit didn't pan out.