IMO, the "Sunken place" is an allegory for how black people feel trapped in white supremacy. You can look at it literally in terms of blacks feeling stuck underneath the boot of white supremacy. Powerless. Like Chris was powerless to escape falling to the black pit looking up at white faces towering over him like giants. Or you can look at it like blacks who feel to prosper in a white dominated society they have to play down their blackness to appear safe to white people even though it means stifling and suppressing their true self. Selling out. Georgina, Andre and the Groundskeeper are Blacks who completely sold out and are just black faces that are hollowed out inside. Chris goes to them trying to find the common ground blacks do with other blacks in an unfamiliar environment only to find out that they weren't kindred spirits because they sold out already. He senses everything is off with Rose's family but, he continues to stay. After being disrespected by the party guests. After his boy Rod told him about other disappearances. After Rose's mom violated him. Even after seeing all those photos with Rose and other black men he was still refusing to leave. Like a c00n refusing to hear his wake up call. He was still trying to leave with the crazy bytch. Then he fell down into the Sunken Place for real. Just like a c00n in real life disregarding any and all wake up calls on some Sage Steele shyt and doubling down on his/her c00nery until they lost any shred of dignity they once had or any connection to their blackness whatsoever. Until they become the soulless creatures Georgina, Andre and the Groundskeep were. At the end, Chris "woke up" and fought his way out. But, he still couldn't bring himself to kill Rose. Maybe that was because his character was supposed to have loved her but, it could also be black men refusing to see white women as being culpable in their role in white supremacy. He killed the mother no doubt but, Rose is young and beautiful and delicate. So its harder to see her as the monster she was. Hell, that bytch was the one luring black men there for the most part. She was the most evil. She should've gotten stabbed with antlers or got her head stomped in. He should've strangled her ass to death but, he couldn't bring himself to harm the innocent white woman. And the evil bytch was smiling about it
Rod was a real one.....stayed true and never needed to wake up because he was never sleeping in the first place. Or, trying to be someone he wasn't. Never stopped looking for his boy who had lost his way. Amazing film. And #pawglife definitely took some serious blows with this movie
to Peele for knocking it out the park his first go round.
yo ass would of been in that sunken place in no time
