DEHUMANIZATION

As the film advances, viewers are clued in that Chris’ arrival at Rose’s home is for other reasons than the goal of meeting her parents. While Chris is at the family’s home, they host a garden party with dozens of white people arriving in nice cars and dressed in modest, yet expensive-looking clothing. Immediately upon meeting him, an older female guest feels Chris’s biceps as if she were sizing up his physique for purchase at an auction (Avella)
A later scene in the movie shows Rose appraising the torsos of black athletes on her computer as she casually sips her drink. This powerful imagery depicts her as the physical representation of a 21st century slave owner, carefully studying the bodies of black men for their value, as if buying them through a slave market (Staples). After looking through the pictures of other similarly built black men that Rose has brought home and subsequently disappeared, it becomes clear that she selected Chris specifically for his physique and the value that his eyes and stature will have to the white consumer that will pay to have their brain transplanted into his body.