Get Out

Detracted, without question. The fact that the ultimate villain, in a film about racism, turned out to be the young pretty white girl was I feel a brutally important point to make. It's an aversion of Beauty Equals Goodness, and also draws attention to the role that white women play in reinforcing white supremacy.

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."

Usually I dislike characters being suddenly revealed as evil, if the revealed character has less depth of personality and character than their original persona. This was not the case with Rose, who turned out to be pretty fascinating as a villainous chameleon. Plus, the stigma against interracial relationships usually tends to roll towards "black men hunting for white women", diminishing both by portraying black guys as hungry beasts and white women as helpless daughters. There's a reason why Guess Who's Coming To Dinner went out of its way to make the black guy an absolutely perfect demigod, but settled for making the white woman "normal". So in other words, the white daughter turning out to be a coldblooded killer is a Stereotype Flip, not reinforcing a stereotype, and articulating that there is fear on the other side too. Peele is married to Chelsea Peretti, so I trust he and she know what affects them.

edited 15th Mar '17 8:30:34 PM by Tuckerscreator

Well, maybe not "no problem" but it was clear he was just planning on cooperating and not be so quick to toss out the race card. That is intentional, as later in the movie as his paranoia started growing he affirms what we already saw, that he isn't so quick to jump to that conclusion.

As for Rose being in on the plan, it's the betrayal of trust that nearly breaks Chris' spirit. Whereas everyone else was shifty, Rose being that good at gaining his trust also lends credence to how they were able to get all the others. The subversion of the innocent pretty white girl is also very innovative.

I was thinking a really nice touch was the cops that Rodney ends up talking to are not white, and the story had already established this recurring theme where you almost expect the cop to go "I believe you, bro" and fistbump them. Instead it turns out to be a traditional Police Are Useless type of response.

The endless recursion.

edited 18th Mar '17 12:00:17 AM by Tuckerscreator

Yep, that's pretty funny.

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."

The sequel.

Gold.

Chelsea Peretti is very offended by ''Get Out''.

She's married to Jordan Peele.

edited 4th Apr '17 1:03:04 AM by Tuckerscreator

I forgot to comment how much I loved this film! Particularly when it comes to being relatable to me as it captured one of the things that really makes me mad. I've found it can go beyond race to just difference in general, but regardless, it's something I've experience with that drives me mad. I find them harder to deal with since it's not obvious and just... Well, so much I could go into here, but regardless, I loved it.

Improving as an author, one video at a time.

It was very predictable but overall I really loved the movie. It should not be labeled as a horror movie... its more of a thriller/comedy.

"Death is a blessing for foolish human beings" - Goku Black

I have to say that while I pegged the Armitages as baddies pretty much instantly, I did not guess what they were actually doing. The "black mold" comment toward the beginning made me think that they were simply racially-motivated serial killers who store their corpses in the basement, then for a bit I thought there might be something flat-out supernatural going on (perhaps similar to the life-draining coven of cat people from Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island), but I never once thought the scheme would be nonconsensual black-market brain surgery (good band name).

The pig of Hufflepuff pulsed like a large bullfrog. Dumbledore smiled at it, and placed his hand on its head: "You are Hagrid now."

I see what you did there.

Ceterum censeo Morbillivirum esse eradicandum.

Pun not intended, actually.

The pig of Hufflepuff pulsed like a large bullfrog. Dumbledore smiled at it, and placed his hand on its head: "You are Hagrid now."

Something that makes me kind of pat myself on the back. So, I had previously mentioned how the movie's brain-switching element seemed Lovecraftian and how some of the elements of the plotline reminded me specifically of a novel called Lovecraft Country.

Well, Jordan Peele is actually adapting the novel for HBO.

Chance the Rapper and Jordan Peele discuss the music and movie and a "Get Out" musical is confirmed.

Such a clever film. Did everyone notice that Chris is able to avoid the hypnotism at the end by literally picking cotton to put in his ears?

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Question: I haven't seen the movie, but I would like to. But I'm worried it's one of those things that's going to feel dated or be overtaken by current politics - I know everyone at school and on the internet was saying "This is what Trump supporters are like" and yada yada yada - do you think the current events will change how I see the movie, or do you think it's fine?

It's kind of about everything, while not being about any one thing in particular, of that makes sense.

The message doesn't actually seem dated to me at all.

The pig of Hufflepuff pulsed like a large bullfrog. Dumbledore smiled at it, and placed his hand on its head: "You are Hagrid now."

I guess it will be dated at some hypothetical point in the future when Black people are truly equal in society.

Then it'll be watched in history classes!

The pig of Hufflepuff pulsed like a large bullfrog. Dumbledore smiled at it, and placed his hand on its head: "You are Hagrid now."

The movie really doesn't seem like it's targeting overt bigotry. It's more aimed at subtler, non-institutional kinds of racism that even ideologically tolerant people tend to be prone to.

As it's been noted, the movie is more mocking of Positive Discrimination and patronizing attitudes in liberal types rather than mocking the Trump brand of white supremacy.

If anything, a more functional concern is that the movie will age badly for not attacking the out-and-about white supremacy of conservatives directly in future years. I don't think it will, but it's more plausible than the other way around.

"All you Fascists bound to lose."

At the same time, the whole brain thing is a callout to the more institutional forms of racism throughout US history (slavery obviously, but then the mss incarceration which is just slavery by another name) but also to things like appropriation and the fetishization of black bodies, the dark side of assimilation, and even a dig at the Kardashians if you want to reach a little bit.

Peele said that the movie was an attack against actual claims that "racism is over in America" after Obama was elected. Hence the "I voted for Obama" bit.

We've gotten to a point in society where overt racism is seen for what it is, so "Trump's White Supremacy America" (whatever that means) will have no shortage of criticism. But the movie is saying that racism is singling out a group of people regardless if the belief is positive or negative. "I'm not racist, I voted for Obama" can be viewed as as trying to not be seen as racist so you voted for a black man.