Suburbicon Film Review – Portrays Racism in White America (may contain spoilers)

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Set in 1950's USA, Suburbicon is designed to be the ideal suburban community. Featuring two simultaneous but totally unrelated plots, one is a murder mystery gone terribly out of control, featuring the Lodge family. The other plot involves an educated black family who have recently moved into the area, next door to the Lodge family. The atmosphere in the community is immediately affected as we see the white residents do everything they can to let the black family know how unwelcome they are, they are relentlessly terrorised. 

Matt Damon plays the Lodge family father figure, he appears to owe money to the mafia. Two henchmen visit late one night demanding money, they kill Mrs. Lodge and the plot develops into an insurance fraud scam. Enter Oscar Isaac as the insurance investigator, he is truly fantastic but unfortunately only gets limited screen time.

Either plot would have been better had they focused more detail into either, although the black family's story is the direction where the film should have emphasized its attention, it should have been made into a standalone. 

Directed by George Clooney, but I imagine his (Civil Rights Activist) wife had significant input as well, hence the racial friction sub-plot.

I'm confused and disappointed.

 5/10.

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