The tone of Suburbicon veers wildly, providing a few dark laughs but generally staying to straight you can’t quite believe what its attempting in the guise of dark satire.
At times, Suburbicon flirts with saying something important and unconventional about race, family strife, or the state of the modern neighborhood.
It’s the simplest of life-lessons, yet Suburbicon hammers us over the head as if its trying to teach us a complicated algorithm from hit elevated pedestal.
The point of Suburbicon is that while a neighborhood turns on an innocent family because of the color of their skin, they are ignoring the atrocities conducted by a truly evil family, just because their white.