so its another excuse to generalize skin colour? not even worth quantifying it as "some" white people? maybe this is an American thing, but I still don't see how that's a positive sentiment for anyone.
the stuff with the auction was so over the top im not even sure what to feel
.....because its nonsense/gibberish on both parts
If you're not from America, I can see you not understanding a lot of the subtext in the choices Jordan Peele made in this film. In particular, being African American (and to a lesser extent, most any minority) gives you a more direct through line to getting the film.
The Sunken Place (or the hypnosis as you point out), as Jordan Peele explained it, is a metaphor for being marginalized, and no matter how much you might try to resist or scream, you have no power. The "system", which can be the government (or, in the African American experience, white people, which is not really much different in this case) silences you. No matter how much Chris screamed out for help, he was incapable of doing anything to better his circumstances.
Now as far as what those other posters said earlier:
"Everybody wants to be black, but nobody wants to be black". Everybody seems to love black culture, whether it's fashion, language, music, dance or general swagger. But at the same time, there's the stereotype of white women clutching her purse tighter when walking by a young black man on the street, or locking her door when one passes by her car. They don't do this because of positive stereotypes. They have been conditioned over centuries into thinking black people, especially black men, are violent and dangerous. They know that cops feel the same way generally (even other minority cops), so while they benefit from black culture, they don't/wouldn't want to be in the same situation as blacks as far as the negative stereotypes are concerned. Hence the saying.
Another way of saying it would be something like "Oh, so you adopted Hip-Hop culture, but can't handle the cops' grilling you more now". It's basically saying that someone is trying to take all of the positives of being black, but don't want to accept the negatives that come with the package.
So how this relates to the film, you say? Well, think back to slavery. We had white masters being able to do whatever they wanted to black bodies. Whip and kill black men, rape and impregnate black women, etc. They used Africans for physical labor of all kinds, so that they could concentrate on other endeavors. White brains with black brawn, so to speak. Now look at the party/slave auction. Yes, they literally were sizing him up like a slave master would at the auction block, but to do that they were asking him about black stereotypes, like how strong and great they must be at physical activities such as sports, their sexual prowess (perhaps for breeding purposes, much like slave times), and the like.
So, what does the end game brain swapping end up doing? Combining white brains with black brawn! While they are not outright overt racists (like you'd stereotypically expect of the American South), they believe those old stereotypes that blacks are inherently stronger and more capable in sexual activity, and so they desire having that experience after having lived their very privileged white lives. They're not going to encounter much of the negativity of being black, cause they're not going to go and let former friends and family of the black people they inhabit get the chance to find out they're still around. They'll stay in their own little community, isolated from all of that inconvenient racism that black people complain about and experience all of the time.
So again, I say to you:
"Everyone wants to be black, but nobody wants to be black".
This movie succeeds as much as it does not for its horror aspects, nor for its thriller aspects. But for its social commentary. Jordan Peele keeps on calling it a Social Thriller. I think it's as apt of a name as any. But keep in mind that the Social is before the Thriller. So much of this film is an allegory for what it's like being black in American society today, and not just in the South, a place you associate with overt racism. But instead with people you'd normally consider allies: liberal whites. While they may not purposefully be prejudiced and not be racist themselves, there are many small transgressions (or micro-transgressions as many people call them) that they may not realize they are doing, such as all of the white people at the party trying to relate to Chris' blackness by saying things like "I would've voted for Obama for a third term" or "I know Tiger (Woods)!" While that sounds harmless, ultimately it makes Chris feel less welcome than before, because they don't seem to know how to relate to him besides through his skin tone. They don't try to simply relate to him as a fellow human being. He is constantly being reminded of his ethnicity, instead of feeling respected and being treated like one of their own.
There is so much more to unpack with this film, but I'd start with this video (
https://youtu.be/ubNKSgdT1FQ), which does a good job of just explaining much of the metaphors and symbolism of the film. I would also go and check out all the Jordan Peele interviews he did in the run-up and during the height of Get Out's success. There is a lot to chew on. But with this knowledge, it'll make watching the film that much more enlightening, and you can see how amazing it all works together.
