One of the great benefits of watching too many films is the important life lessons left with the viewer. For instance, if you see your secluded neighbor digging a deep hole in a random cornfield at night, you should avoid him at all costs. If the motel off the highway you stop at has no other visitors, you should leave immediately. That said, if the host of your stay is your significant other’s family, it might be rude to walk out on them.
Get Out starts with a subtle display and ends with a full uncovering of the unsettling horrors of racism and social injustice. When twenty-six-year-old Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya), a black photographer, travels to upstate New York for the weekend to meet the family of his white girlfriend, Rose Armitage (Allison Williams), he comes to realize the alarming situation he has been placed in. With meeting Rose’s parents, Dean, a neurosurgeon, and Missy, a psychiatrist, it later becomes significant to recall the jobs and skills they hold. As well as remembering the eerie observations Chris has of the behavior from the family’s black servants, Georgina, the maid, and Walter, the gardener.
Beginning with introductions and dinners to diving into the depths of the Armitage family, Daniel Kaluuya, an Academy Award nominee for Best Actor, displays the concerns Chris holds from his odd interactions with the family, the guests, and the servants perfectly. And transitioning from simple hypnotherapy by Missy that ends Chris’s smoking habit to heavy hypnosis that sits him in a deadly situation – everything in between proves Chris’s original internal alarm.
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Jordan Peele, with his director debut, did fantastic work with placing hints of slightly uncomfortable conversations and scenarios throughout the beginning of the film, before including the more horrific and intensified parts of the story. Which makes having such early scenes that hold double meanings within the film, that much more disturbingly realistic.
If you are a fan of Jordan Peele’s other work, Nope and Us, Get Out is sure to become a new favorite with the social thrill that comes along when viewing. And if you happen to be familiar with his previous work of Key and Peele sketches on Comedy Central, Get Out is the right opportunity to see his creative abilities in a new light.
This standalone movie is a mix of racial tension and retro horror, continuing to be a unique plotline in the film industry and having been praised for it with a 2018 Academy Award win in Best Original Screenplay.
Get Out was released in 2017 by Universal Pictures, after having been completely shot in a total of 23 days. It grossed a total of $255 million when in box office, which is a huge difference compared to the $4.5 million budget it took to produce. It is deemed an R-rated movie, involves the genres horror, mystery, and thriller, holds a running length of 104 minutes, and received a 98% in rotten tomatoes. It gets an A in my book, so, get out and go watch it!
