History Film / GetOut2017

''Get Out'' is a 2017 [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_thriller social thriller]][[note]]More specifically, [[GenreBusting a satirical horror-suspense-mystery-thriller-comedy]][[/note]] film written and directed by Creator/JordanPeele, starring Creator/DanielKaluuya and Creator/AllisonWilliams.

''Get Out'' is a 2017 [[InsistentTerminology social]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_thriller thriller]][[note]]More specifically, [[GenreBusting a satirical horror-suspense-mystery-thriller-comedy]][[/note]] film written and directed by Creator/JordanPeele, starring Creator/DanielKaluuya and Creator/AllisonWilliams.

''Get Out'' is a 2017 [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_thriller social thriller]][[note]]More specifically, [[GenreBusting a satirical horror-suspense-mystery-thriller-comedy]][[/note]] film written and directed by Creator/JordanPeele, starring Creator/DanielKaluuya and Creator/AllisonWilliams.

Chris Washington (Kaluuya) travels with his girlfriend, Rose Armitage (Williams), to the upstate New York estate of her parents, Missy (Creator/CatherineKeener) and Dean (Creator/BradleyWhitford), to meet them for the first time. Already anxious that her wealthy, white parents will not accept him, 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.

* ActuallyNotAVampire: Out of universe example. The actors playing the extended Armitage family weren't told the movie's plot but were told to act like they were vampires and that Chris was someone they wanted to eat.

** It finally appears in a [[https://youtu.be/nPlVC-JS204?t=558 deleted scene]], after [[spoiler:Rose reveals her true colors and Chris is sent back to the Sunken Place by Missy]].

* AllThereInTheManual: During the DVD commentary, director Jordan Peele 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 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]].

* BourgeoisBohemian: A lot of the satire of the film comes from subverting this trope. The Armitages are an upper-class white family who go out of their way to state their liberal racial beliefs, including cheering on black celebrities such as Jesse Owens, Barack Obama, and Tiger Woods, which ultimately come across as oddly patronizing. Ultimately, it's revealed that [[spoiler:they really do think black people are great. Physically. So great that they'll do anything to possess that physical greatness for themselves]].

* ContrivedCoincidence: The villains' evil plan would likely have succeeded had not, by pure chance, one of their victims turned out to be someone Chris and Rodney knew. Keep in mind there are eight million people in New York City.

** [[spoiler:During Chris's RoaringRampageOfRevenge, we see Rose sitting in her room in all-white clothing, looking at top black NCAA prospects while drinking white milk through a black straw while eating a bowl of dry Fruit Loops separately from the white milk. WordOfGod says that the eating dry Fruit Loops separately from the white milk part was unintentional, but everything else was very much not.]]

* 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.]] Jordan Peele 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.

** The film's sinister goings-on within a seemingly polite setting (as well as its social commentary) are reminiscent of ''Film/TheStepfordWives'' and even ''Film/RosemarysBaby'' (Chris is even a photographer like the protagonist in ''The Stepford Wives''). Jordan Peele has stated the film is inspired, at least in part, by ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968''.

** Being a liberal doesn’t make you any less guilty of racism. In most works about the subject, it’s portrayed as something 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.

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

* CallBack: Chris’s mother is killed in a hit-and-run when he was 11, and he later tells Rose that she bled out on the side of the road for hours. [[spoiler:When Chris accidentally runs down Georgina, her unconscious body is reminiscent of how his mom likely looked. And when Rod finally rescues Chris, they leave Rose bleeding out on the side of the road.]]

** 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.]]

** 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.]]

* FailureToSaveMurder: Chris blames himself for his mother’s death, because he failed to call 911 when she didn’t come home. Instead, he just watched TV, while his mother bled out from a hit and run.

* IWarnedYou: [[TheCassandra Rod]] warns Chris not to visit Rose’s family. [[spoiler:[[BigDamnHeroes After rescuing Chris]], Rod cannot help but tell him, “I told you so!”]]

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler:Rose]] finally pays for all of the black men (and women) she has lured to her family’s home. It’s also [[ImpliedTrope insinuated]] that [[spoiler:Georgina]] is the one who left the box of pictures for Chris to find, [[spoiler:which would mean the true person inside Georgina has finally gotten her revenge. Later, when Walter re-emerges, he shoots Rose before [[IDieFree killing himself]]]].

** [[spoiler:Jeremy looks like he’s dead, lying unconscious with blood coming out of his head. But he comes back and almost stops Chris from leaving the house.]]

** [[spoiler:Rose also falls in this category, as she’s left bleeding out on the side of the road, but it’s not entirely clear if she dies.]]

* SecretSocietyGroupPicture: The Armitage family photo after Dean’s father officially establishes [[spoiler:the Order of the Coagula.]]

** The ending is a subversion of ''[[Theatre/{{Othello}} Othello’s]]'' ending [[spoiler:in which the AmbiguouslyBrown protagonist strangles his white wife to death after being tricked into thinking she has betrayed him. In this case, the black protagonist has been truly betrayed by his white girlfriend and begins to strangle her, but cannot go through with it.]]

''Get Out'' is a 2017 [[InsistentTerminology social thriller]][[note]]More specifically, [[GenreBusting a satirical horror-suspense-mystery-thriller-comedy]][[/note]] film written and directed by Creator/JordanPeele, starring Creator/DanielKaluuya and Creator/AllisonWilliams.

* DeconstructiveParody: [[spoiler: The whole movie is a deconstruction of political correctness, positive discrimination and tokenism towards ethnicities. Chris receives awkward compliments from Rose's family as they kept commenting on his ethnicity by saying how he's physically superior to them due to his race and are more focused on his ethnicity 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.]]

** Jim, the blind art critic, is the one auctioneer who actually has civil conversations with Chris as equals [[spoiler: and is the only auctioneer not motivated to take Chris's body for racial reasons. He's literally a symbolism of those who expouse being color blind to racism, who while not directly oppressing others, still take advantage of a oppressive system, using their "color blindness" 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. The movie takes it to to its most extreme conclusion, where rather than taking one trait, like music, art, or clothing, in the movie a [[spoiler: 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.]]]]

-->'''[[spoiler:Georgina]]''':[[spoiler:''You ruined MY HOUSE!'']]

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

-->'''[[spoiler: Georgina]]''':[[spoiler:"''You ruined MY HOUSE!''"]]

When one of the family's friends seems to snap and tells Chris to [[TitleDrop get out,]] he stumbles onto a strange conspiracy, and finds that getting out is much harder than it seems…

Chris Washington (Kaluuya) travels with his girlfriend, Rose Armitage (Williams), to the Upstate New York estate of her parents, Missy (Creator/CatherineKeener) and Dean (Creator/BradleyWhitford), to meet them for the first time. Already anxious that her wealthy, white parents will not accept him, 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.

Chris Washington (Kaluuya) travels with his girlfriend, Rose Armitage (Williams), to the Upstate New York estate of her parents, Missy (Creator/CatherineKeener) and Dean (Creator/BradleyWhitford), to meet them for the first time. Already anxious that her white parents will not accept him, 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.

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[[caption-width-right:300:''[[{{Tagline}} Do you belong in this neighborhood?]]'']]

Chris (Kaluuya) goes with his girlfriend Rose (Williams) to meet her parents, Missy (Creator/CatherineKeener) and Dean (Creator/BradleyWhitford), for the first time. Already anxious that her white parents will not accept him, Chris notices certain oddities about the idyllic property...Missy and Dean's unusually docile black servants, and how their friends seem to take an oddly urgent shine to him.

* RealityEnsues:
** Technically, Rod ends up being correct that [[spoiler:the Armitages are a cult]]. He goes to the cops, shows a picture of Logan and tries to report he went missing. The cop is skeptical, because Logan doesn't "look" missing and seems happy. Rod then goes on with his theory about a SexSlave cult and his best friend being trapped in it, and the cop seems to take it seriously. It turns out she wanted her coworkers to hear a ridiculous story, and they laugh Rod out of their office. You need more proof than a wild theory and a photo to report a potential crime.
** It at first seems that [[spoiler:Chris is a CorneredRattlesnake and has taken down all the Armitages except Rose. This is awesome. Then Georgina makes him crash and he barely survives with a bad limp. When Rose tells a brainwashed Walter to get him, Chris is swiftly tackled, which is not so awesome but realistic]].

'''Character tropes go on to the [[Characters/GetOut2017 Characters Sheet.]]'''

* ArtisticLicensePsychology: Hypnosis tends to break down when subjects are forced to do things they consider objectionable.

** 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 PositiveDiscrimination, [[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.]]
%%* DiesWideOpen: [[spoiler: Rose after getting shot and trying to kill Chris. She dies watching him get away in the end.]]

* ArtisticLicense: Current medical science doesn't include knowledge of how to transplant and reconnect neural tissue, so transferring sections of the brain (or the entire organ!) from one person to another simply isn't possible. Hypnosis tends to break down when subjects are forced to do things they consider objectionable. Examples of ArtisticLicenseMedicine, ArtisticLicenseBiology, and ArtisticLicensePsychology.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: [[spoiler:Even if you roll with the whole brain transfer-procedure, this still leaves the issue of the original minds of the host being trapped in the body on a passenger seat (kinda like in ''Film/BeingJohnMalkovich''). Which doesn't really make sense since the seat of their mind - their brain - has been removed and discarded. While it is implied that it is not a complete brain transplant (they still have the original brain stem), the concept of self resides in the prefrontal cortex, an area that would surely be affected by the transfer]].

** The entire [[spoiler: GrandTheftMe plot arc]] can be read as an extended metaphor of the colonialization of Africa, with [[spoiler:white mentalities "overwriting" the physical spaces inhabited by blacks. Also, white fear of black culture, which leads to the thought that black people should StopBeingStereotypical.]]

** 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 against blacks.]]

* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Rose lured Chris into a trap and was willing to let him die after he trusted her]]. Quite fittingly, Walter [[spoiler:after Chris frees him pretends to be Rose's grandfather and demands the shotgun. He shoots her when she trusts him. Then Chris leaves Rose to die when Rod rescues him. Rose recognizes the irony and resigns herself to her fate]].

* NotBrainwashed: Notice in the film that a camera flash never affects [[spoiler:Rose]], even when she's in the range of fire. Despite the theories that [[spoiler:she]] may have been hypnotized into doing her family's bidding, it's confirmed that [[spoiler:she was in the plot all along ForTheEvulz, as shown when she hunts down Chris with a shotgun]].

** Your friend is going to meet his girlfriend's family. While you advise them to not go and keep tabs on them, they start reporting strange behavior. He stops calling, and his girlfriend hits on you when you press her for details. Then you go to the cops, who laugh at you for having conspiracy theories despite reporting a missing person. [[spoiler:Rod finally commanders a TSA vehicle to find his best friend and save him, but only succeeds in the theatrical version]].

Chris (Kaluuya) goes with his girlfriend Rose (Williams) to meet her parents, Missy (Creator/CatherineKeener) and Dean (Creator/BradleyWhitford), for the first time. Already anxious that her white parents will not accept him, Chris notices certain oddities about the idyllic property... Missy and Dean's unusually docile black servants, and how their friends seem to take an oddly urgent shine to him.

When one of the family's friends seems to snap and tells Chris to [[TitleDrop get out]], he stumbles onto a strange conspiracy, and finds that getting out is much harder than it seems…

If you're looking for the titular trope itself, look [[GetOut here]].

'''Character tropes go on to the [[Characters/GetOut2017 Characters Sheet]].'''