Get Out is R-rated due to violence, bloody images, and language.
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As Black History Month is upon us, we need to gear some of our attention toward black films. Last week I watched one of my favorites, an unmissable film called Get Out. This film is directed by Jordan Peele who created other very successful films such as Us and Dope. This film follows our two main characters Chris and Rose as Chris is meeting his white girlfriend’s family for the first time. Chris starts to excuse the family’s strange behavior as a coping mechanism for the family dealing with their daughter’s interracial relationship but as things start to get stranger, Chris realizes that the truth is far from anything he could imagine. This film takes you through a whirlwind of emotions. It is classified as a Horror/Comedy due to its take on current racial injustices, suspense, mystery, and psychological fiction.
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Every time I watch this film I notice a new thing I didn’t realize before about the plot twist at the end, and I think that might be my favorite part of the movie! As you come to the end of the film and start understanding what this twisted family is doing and who the gardener and maid are, everything starts clicking. I have so many favorite details that I missed my first watch. One example is at the beginning of the movie when they called the cop because they hit a deer on their way up and the cop asked not only for Rose’s ID (because she was driving) but also for Chris’s ID even though he was just a passenger. At the time Rose gets very defensive and most of us in the audience including Chris just take it as she is trying to be an ally and stand up for injustice yet as I look back at it her only intent was most likely for the cop to not be able to identity him with her when he goes missing in the future. Another detail that I loved was how Chris was “freed by picking cotton.” When I first watched this movie I figured out that he was gonna put the chair’s stuffing into his ears to protect himself from the hypnosis but I never made the picking cotton connection until I heard one of my peers point it out to me. That was such a genius and ironic addition on Peele’s part. One last detail would be when Rose’s father is giving Chris a house tour he stumbles upon an old photo of his dad and how he was an athlete, He used to be a runner and was very passionate about it, but unfortunately lost his Olympic race to “Jesse Owens” a black dude that left his father distraught. Later in the film, we find out that the groundskeeper is actually his father in a black man’s body and we constantly see him running to beat Jesse Owens time from all those years ago. This movie was so good and I recommend it to anyone who likes a little thrill!
