The novel is a biting
satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court.
Not exact matches
At first, Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner told real stories, however goofily (
Young Frankenstein, Dead
Men Don't Wear Plaid), and had real things to say (Blazing Saddles isn't just parody but
satire; it is
about racism in the Western genre).
But that's just how good Jordan Peele's directing debut is, a thoughtful
satire on race relations
about a
young black
man who discovers things aren't what they seem when he visits his white girlfriend's family in the country.
Rather, by bringing the element of the
young, modern black
man into the picture, he is creating a conversation
about power, which is much more interesting and effective than
satire in this dialog.