**WARNING** If you have not seen the movie Get Out, I would advise choosing another article. So, has anyone else scene this movie? I personally don't think I'm ever going to drink hot tea again. Or even iced tea. Or ever mix any sugar into it. Or stair at a TV screen again. Or go on a trip to meet my boyfriends parents. This whole movie had me leaving the theatre "I'm shook".
This insane movie, making over more than 100 million in the box office, and also getting a 99% on Rotten Tomatoes and 8.3/10 on IMDb (this is unheard of) is a dramatic story about a young interracial couple that takes a trip to her family's "estate". Estate, that word just screams money. I remember watching the trailer for this movie, the creepiest trailer I have ever seen, and thinking hell no. I am never going to watch this movie. It is so creepy. However, after hearing the reviews about it, I gave in. At the end of the movie, I left in a state of "WTF" and also damn I wish I had Rod Williams as a best friend because not only was he the hero he also was freaking hilarious.
What freaked me out the most about this movie, not the hypnosis, not the "sink into the hole", but the underlying message of racism throughout the film. It is first introduced to us when Chris asks Rose, his white girlfriend, if her parents knew that she was black. She honestly made him feel dumb for even asking. When we find out in the end, however, his parents knew he was black the whole time. This movie is full of ironic situations and sneaky plot twists that had me on the edge of my seat the whole entire time.
What's most important about this movie? That the underlying plot has to do with racism, and that the white, upperclass families in this movie are infatuated with the black race. It provides us with a modern twist on the black enslavement, having the white, wealthy family Armitage perform surgery and hypnosis to put the lives of deceased family members into the bodies of the black people they've kidnapped. It was a movie plot unlike any other that I've seen, which I think is why it has done so well in the box office. The irony in the movie, having the white folk take the body's of the blacks, creates a very unique prejudice in the film. The director Jordan Peele does at first give us an obvious view of paranoia with racism. Chris, in the beginning of the film, was nervous that Rose had not informed her parents that he was indeed black. This immediately begins the irony of the film, since her parents have clearly known the whole time. Rose, I hate that girl.
If you're in for a movie that will have you second guessing yourself the whole time, whiling providing you with excitement and anxiety, then I would definitely recommend seeing this film.
