History Film / GetOut2017

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler:It wasn't very smart of Chris to pick up Georgina after he hit her, considering she's controlled by an Armitage. He would have brought her to civilization, and then she would have turned on him, told the police he killed her family, and who knows what else. Thanks to the fact that she woke up and attacked him, she got herself, the grandfather and Rose killed, thus ridding the world of all the Armitages and making sure Chris doesn't get blamed for the crime (at least in the official ending).]]

* HopeSpot: Chris is finally terrified enough that he wants to leave the Armitage house immediately. Rose's assurances are no longer enough to calm him. When her parents ask why they're about to leave, Rose is the one who makes the excuse that Chris's dog is sick and they have to get him to the vet. But [[spoiler:it turns out that Rose is not innocent; she's on board with the family's sick plans and has had the car keys she was "having trouble finding" all along]].

** Being a liberal doesn't make you any less guilty or capable of racism. Racism is often portrayed as something exclusively associated with the right, but the film shows how liberals can easily use their apparent progressiveness as a shield for their own bigotry, which makes them more dangerous than if it was obvious.

* AllThereInTheManual: During the DVD commentary, director Creator/JordanPeele explained that he had created a large backstory for the Armitages' group of friends. [[spoiler: They belong to an ancient secret society descended from the Knights Templar, who are associated with the Holy Grail in popular culture. For centuries, they had been trying to seek the eternal life promised by the Holy Grail, and finally achieved it with the Coagula procedure. This also explains the significance of the knight's helmet Jeremy has in the opening scene where he abducts Andre.]]

* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler: After getting shot trying to kill Chris, Rose attempts this to fool Chris as an "act of redemption". It doesn't work.]]
-->'''[[spoiler: Rose]]:''' Chris, I'm so sorry. It's me. And I love you. I love you.

** [[spoiler: The ultimate fate of the original inhabitants of the Armitage family servants' bodies, as well as Andre and every other victim of the Armitages. Their consciousness is still in there, forced to see and hear everything that's happening while their bodies are being controlled by someone else, and they're trapped in a mental prison called the Sunken Place. Judging by their reactions while gaining temporary control, they're not happy about it.]]

* BlackIsBiggerInBed: One of the party guests asks Rose about this directly, much to Chris and Rose's shock and embarrassment. [[spoiler: It turns out the guest was trying to decide whether Chris was worth bidding on.]]

** The flash from Chris's cell phone camera [[spoiler: causes the people in the Sunken Place to temporarily regain control of their body. He uses this later to stop Walter from shooting him. The original owner of the body uses the brief moment of control to shoot Rose and himself instead.]]

** More of a nervous habit than a skill: Chris claws the ends of the armchair arms when reliving his guilt over his mother's death, which then becomes a part of his hypnotic stress behavior. [[spoiler: When he does this to the armchair in the basement, he scratches away the leather and rips open the cotton, which he then uses to plug his ears to avoid the next hypnotic spell.]]

** And [[InvertedTrope inverted]] with [[spoiler:what saves Chris from the hypnotic effect]] in a movie with such explicit racial overtones -- [[spoiler: '[[{{Irony}} picking cotton]]' -- out of a stuffed armchair, that is.]]

* DeconstructiveParody: [[spoiler: The whole movie is a deconstruction of political correctness, positive discrimination, and tokenism towards black people. Chris receives awkward compliments from the attendees of the party as they keep commenting on how he's physically superior to them due to his race, and are more focused on his race than his actual personality. The auction scene is the best example of this; the attenders just want Chris's body and treat him like a slab of meat to be used and discarded without second thought -- just like slave-owners.]]

** The entire [[spoiler: GrandTheftMe plot arc]] can be read as an extended metaphor of the colonization of Africa, with [[spoiler:white mentalities "overwriting" the physical spaces inhabited by black people. Also, white fear of black culture, which leads to the thought that black people should StopBeingStereotypical.]]
** Jim, the blind art critic, is the one auctioneer who actually has civil conversations with Chris as an equal [[spoiler: and is the only auctioneer not motivated to take Chris's body for racial reasons. He's a walking symbol of those who espouse being colorblind to racism and, while not directly oppressing others, still take advantage of an oppressive system, using their "colorblindness" as justification.]]
** The movie's central premise can also be compared to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_appropriation cultural appropriation.]] In RealLife, cultural appropriation occurs when culture A takes traits from culture B it finds appealing without giving it much thought as to how said cultural trait is important to culture B, and forsaking the rest of culture B as unimportant, especially when members of culture B are ridiculed for practicing their own culture by members of culture A. The movie takes it to to its most extreme conclusion, where rather than taking one trait, like music, art, or clothing, [[spoiler: a scheme is hatched where [[GrandTheftMe an old white person's brain is transplanted into a young black person's body, forsaking the black person's life as unimportant in the process.]]]]

** The one [[TokenMinority Japanese man]] at the otherwise monochrome garden party[[spoiler:/cult gathering]]; "Asians are naturally smart" is one of ''the'' go-to examples of positive discrimination, [[spoiler: which is one of the things that the movie speaks against.]] To go one further, during silent bingo/[[spoiler:[[AuctionOfEvil auction for Chris's body]],]] said Japanese man's bingo card is the only one with [[YellowPeril yellow dots on it.]]

* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Thanks to the timely arrival of Rod and a carefully-crafted escape plan, Chris is able to get out after undergoing days of mental torture.]] Creator/JordanPeele originally had a more [[DownerEnding downbeat ending]] in mind as a hint to audiences who thought that the election of UsefulNotes/BarackObama meant racism was "over", but decided that in the racially polarized political atmosphere of the UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump administration (especially following several high-profile shootings of black people by cops), the audience deserved a more satisfying ending.

* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: For the first half of the movie, [[spoiler: Rose]] sports loose wavy hair reaching down below the shoulders and covering the sides of the face and forehead, [[spoiler: as part of her loving person façade.]] After TheReveal, [[spoiler: Rose pulls back her hair into a tight ponytail that exposes her entire face to demonstrate how cold, calculating, and manipulative she really is.]]

* ForcedToWatch: In order for [[spoiler: the [[GrandTheftMe Coagula procedure]]]] to work, Missy must place [[spoiler: the victim in [[AndIMustScream the Sunken Place]] via hypnotism.]] Once there, [[spoiler: the host's trapped mind has no choice but to witness the parasite brain using their body to engage in any activity they want, including [[SexSlave sexual intercourse]], and interacting with the parasite's own friends and family while the host has no choice but to either sit quietly in their own subconscious or [[FightingFromTheInside try desperately to escape their mental prison in any way they can,]] or wait for a [[BlindingCameraFlash bright flash of light to shine onto their face, like a flash photograph, that enables them to break free,]] if only for just a moment.]]

** [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] at the climax. [[spoiler: As Chris strangles a mortally wounded Rose in the middle of the road, a cop car pulls up. Considering [[NotWhatItLooksLike how damning it would look from an outsider's perspective]], it almost certainly means Chris is about to be killed by a trigger-happy cop...but then we see that the cop car is [[FiveSecondForeshadowing a TSA vehicle]], and out of it steps Chris's friend Rod, ready to give him a ride home to freedom]].

* LightIsNotGood: [[spoiler: The Armitage house and atmosphere is set in a bright white setting with light colors, luring people into a false sense of welcome and comfort. Also, the family's wardrobe is almost always decked in dark colors, except near the end where the Armitage family show their true nature to Chris, when they sport white clothing. Rose is also dressed in a bright white outfit when she's trying to kill Chris with a hunting rifle]].
* MadeASlave: Played with in a very interesting way. When Chris first arrives at the Armitage mansion, the first hints that something is wrong is Georgina and Walter, two African American servants, who supposedly took care of Dean's parents until they died, but couldn't fire because they were like [[{{Foreshadowing}} members of the family.]] After Rose tells Chris that her mother, Missy, is a professional hypnotist, and [[RunningGag Rod keeps insisting that she will turn him into a]] SexSlave, it seems like [[spoiler: Missy took two kidnapped people [[RedHerring and brainwashed them into becoming docile servants.]]]] Considering that TheReveal states that [[spoiler: feeble, old White people [[BodySurf body-snatch]] young Black people in the pursuit of immortality, it's not too much of a stretch to conclude that they are in a way [[SexSlave sex slaves,]] since the parasite minds use their new bodies to engage in sexual intercourse [[ForcedToWatch while the hosts' minds witness everything]] while trapped [[AndIMustScream in the Sunken Place.]]]]

* PoorCommunicationKills: Justified per the Director's Commentary. [[spoiler: Andre is both trying to warn Chris of the danger he's in without being too revealing and also trying to tell the person controlling his body to get out in as direct a fashion as possible. Unfortunately, if Andre was a bit clearer in his instructions, Chris might've known to get out much sooner]].

** Later, when Chris [[spoiler: is being choked by "Walter," Chris uses the flash on his phone to help him break free of Roman Armitage's brain.]] When Rose comes to [[spoiler: shoot Chris with the hunting rifle, "Walter" tells her "let me do it," she hands him the rifle, and he shoots her. As Roman Armitage fights to regain control, [[TakingYouWithMe "Walter" shoots himself]] [[BoomHeadshot in the head.]]]]

* PrimalFear: More like Ancestral Fear, as the main theme song of the movie subtly implies. [[spoiler: The Armitages and their friends wish to take and use the bodies of black people for their own use as they consider them physically superior, a roundabout reflection of slavery. The chanting of the official theme sounds very similar to African chanting, and the lyrics translate roughly to "Listen to the spirits of your ancestors, run".]]
* PsychicNosebleed: Andre has one when he struggles to break free of his MindControl. [[spoiler: Walter also has one when he regains control in the climax.]]

** All the party guests/[[spoiler: cultists]] arrive at the party in black cars. It could be seen as representative of [[spoiler:white minds controlling black bodies]].

** When Chris goes on [[spoiler: his RoaringRampageOfRevenge, he [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice kills Dean with the horns of a mounted male deer head,]] a buck. "Buck" was a derogatory slur that referred to a black man.]]

* TriggerPhrase: [[spoiler: Missy has several, but one she records on video and plays at will is three taps of her spoon against her china teacup. It immediately drops the previously hypnotized victim into unconsciousness.]]

--->'''[[spoiler: Jeremy]]:''' [[spoiler:You fuck! ''You fuck!'']]

* WeaponizedCamera: [[spoiler: Once Chris figures out the effect of a camera flash on the Armitages' hypnotize and lobotomized hosts, he uses it against the family.]]

** The dialogue between Chris and Rod, as opposed to the other characters of color, utilizes code-switching. Chris and Rod have a more natural, casual dialogue as would be expected of two black characters. The others, however, speak in the precisely enunciated tones of [=WASP=]s.

** An injured deer, lowing in pain.

''Get Out'' is a 2017 [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_thriller social thriller]][[note]]more specifically, [[GenreMashup a satirical horror-suspense-mystery-thriller-comedy]][[/note]] film written and directed by Creator/JordanPeele in his directorial debut. It stars Creator/DanielKaluuya and Creator/AllisonWilliams, with Creator/BradleyWhitford, Creator/CalebLandryJones, Creator/StephenRoot, and Creator/CatherineKeener in supporting roles.

* BilingualBonus: The [[OminousLatinChanting ominous]] [[AfricanChant Swahili whispering]] that plays over the drive to the Armitage residence (''"Sikiliza Kwa Wahenga"'' on the soundtrack) has some very good advice for Chris. In the words of composer Michael Abels:

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Chris fights and kills most of the Armitages while escaping the estate, is rescued by Rod while said estate is most likely [[CollapsingLair burned to the ground]], and Rose dies of her gunshot wound. However, Georgina and Walter (who were victims of the Armitages as much as Chris was) are dead (along with god knows how many other victims), and Chris is left bloodied, injured, betrayed by the one he thought loved him and most likely traumatized for life along with still having the trigger to go to the Sunken Place, Andre is still hypnotized and trapped in his own body, and the rest of the Order of the Coagula are still at large and go unpunished, though they cannot continue their experiments for now.]]
** Peele says in the commentary for the alternate ending where Chris goes to jail that stopping the car to help Georgina lets Chris get over the guilt of not helping his mother.

** The last name "Armitage" is an homage to the 20th-century horror writer H.P. Lovecraft: it's the last name of a protagonist in Lovecraft's story ''Literature/TheDunwichHorror''. [[spoiler:Though the Armitage family is villainous in this movie, the use of the name reflects this movie's homage to elements in Lovecraft's stories: decadent New England families with ties to the occult or secret societies, transmigration of souls from one body to another, altered states of reality, and so on. Lovecraft was also notoriously racist.]]

Chris Washington (Kaluuya) travels with his girlfriend, Rose Armitage (Williams), to the upstate New York estate of her wealthy parents, Missy (Keener) and Dean (Whitford), to meet them for the first time. Already anxious that they will not accept him, a black man in a relationship with their white daughter, Chris notices certain oddities about the idyllic property... such as the unusually docile black household servants, and how the Armitages and their friends seem to take an oddly urgent shine to him.

''Get Out'' is a 2017 [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_thriller social thriller]][[note]]more specifically, [[GenreMashup a satirical horror-suspense-mystery-thriller-comedy]][[/note]] film written and directed by Creator/JordanPeele. It stars Creator/DanielKaluuya and Creator/AllisonWilliams, with Creator/BradleyWhitford, Creator/CalebLandryJones, Creator/StephenRoot, and Creator/CatherineKeener in supporting roles.

* FreezeFrameBonus: A subtle one during the [[spoiler:Bingo scene: the Japanese man is the only one given a bingo card with ''yellow'' markers on it. Let that sink in for a minute.]]

** The film does everything in its power to show how racism, be it institutionalized stereotypes or CondescendingCompassion and positive discrimination, turns people into monsters and puts its victims. If it weren't as unsubtle as it is, the movie would not have had the same impact, considering the then-current political climate and the already divisive nature of the subject itself. In other words, so-called "positive" discrimination -- as well as systems and practices that lend privilege to certain groups at the expense of others (even if no racist ''sentiments'' are expressed) -- is just as bad as overt and blatant discrimination, and both are two sides of the same systemic coin.

* EasterEgg: Peele referred to the airport announcer talking about flight 237 as one of these to the Stanley Kubrick film ''The Shining''.

** A door opening takes the expectation of [[spoiler:a police officer seeing a black man standing over a white woman pleading for help and [[ShootTheShaggyDog causing Chris to fall victim to a much more grounded-in-reality act of racial bias]]]] and turns it into a moment of [[spoiler:[[BigDamnHeroes sheer joy when]] [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments the word "Airport" comes into view]]]].

* EroticAsphyxiation: WordOfGod states that [[spoiler:Rose was [[SlasherSmile grinning]] as Chris tried to choke her because it aroused her]].

* SlasherSmile:
** [[spoiler:Rose gives an utterly chilling one when Chris is strangling her in the end, as she is becoming aroused from the strangling. It's still frozen on her face as she dies.]]

* StealthSequel: Peele confirmed the fan theory that it's a sequel to ''Film/BeingJohnMalkovich'' and that Catherine Keener plays the same character in both movies.

* ExactWords:
** When Dean explains his black servants to Chris, he says [[spoiler:they were hired to [[GrandTheftMe take care]] of his parents, and that when they died, he didn't want to get rid of them, because they [[SharingABody felt like family.]]]]
** Dean also tells Chris that the basement is closed off because of a "black mold" problem downstairs. [[spoiler:Molding black people is literally what they're doing down there.]]
*** Interestingly, it seems that Jordan Peele [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=hBvcngHRTFg&t=6m17s didn't plan for it to mean that]]. It was just a lucky accident.