I enjoyed the movie. It was interesting, trying figure out what was going on. The audience was really annoying. Clapping and cheering at the final act. I’ve never experienced that in a movie theatre in my area. Not even for Star Wars.
Personally, I saw it as a criticism of people trying to speak on behalf of black people and using them for virtue signalling.
It brought to mind something that appeared on my Facebook wall due to a friend commenting on a post from someone I (thankfully) don’t know. He was a white man, all distraught over the fact that a black man insinuated he was racist on Facebook. He responded with a lengthy post about how much of a good “ally” he was and included many photos of him with black people to prove it. The photos looked like photo ops with clients. It was a really desperate, cringeworthy display.
When people talk about “being a good ally” and using friendships or even work relationships as their own personal proof of how tolerant they are, all I see is people treating people as their little pets to parade around, something to show off to others to prove how morally superior they are.
Anyway, I saw that message in the movie but I can also see it being taken other ways.