Like if they were white people put in black people’s body why do they work like slaves and act like robots ? As we know the black peoples mind is trapped as only a passanger why would the rich, loved asshole white people who are in charge work like slaves especially because the main one in movie were basically their grand parents? And also why would racist people want to be black ? The only answer i can think of is the plot wasn’t that much thought out and they just ran with it and the people praising this movie does’nt care about plot holes which sucks because these are crucial aspects of this movie . Am i missing something ?

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    9 months ago

    It’s been a long time since I have seen it, but if memory serves, they weren’t working like slaves. The white people inhabiting their bodies were doing what they normally would do if they had young and healthy bodies, like jogging and yardwork. And the “servants” of the house are actually the grandparents pretending to be servants. One can assume that they don’t act like servants when a potential victim is not around.

    As for why they choose black people as hosts, there’s probably a book’s worth of content examining the interplay of superiority and inferiority complexes in the mind of a bigot. Hatred borne of the overlap between envy and contempt, and all that. But the movie gives an explanation, saying it’s just easier to get away with kidnapping black people. This is a fairly obvious criticism of the racial prejudice inherent in the legal system.