Review of Suburbicon (2017) by Frances H — 22 Jan 2019

I liked this satiric film that shows where the real monsters and criminals are--in the white suburbs, where the hypocrisy is pungent and the racism and morals the very opposite of "family values," as a father ends up threatening to kill hi own little boy to get away with murder.

While his own insurance fraud murder scheme goes horribly wrong and the bodies start to mount up, nobody notices, because all the community is so focused on the black family that has just integrated the neighborhood and they are all too busy trying to drive them noisily out! The "ideal" community described in the beginning is anything but, and the plot and music bring back shades of Hitchcock and Double Indemnity.

I liked it. The only truly decent people in the neighborhood are the black family to whom everyone else is being so hideous! I enjoyed the satire and homage to film noir staged in the bright sunny clean suburbs!