Dirty topic meets clean filmmaking

Rating: 6/10 (2 June 2017)

GET OUT manages to create a clean story line which works on at least three layers at the same time: The manifest, the obvious layer on the surface allowing you to get the what the "-effect just before the final act when the latent layer, the what-they-were-really-thinking-layer, gets revealed. And I think it's quite clear that their is a third, thematic layer, dealing with how deep racism sticks within the - what? soul? cultural memory? genetic code? - of these people. And it works as a cinematic experience: it's shocking, it's funny, it's ugly, there is suspense, there are well composed, symbolic pictures, clean again, with no grain and with a well figured out, mostly warm color concept. Still I wasn't very exited when I left the theater and I don't know really why. Was it the acting? No, especially Daniel Kaluuya did an impressing job. The lack of originality? No, there are references to other movies, of course, images one to one resembling the bubble with the Tree of life in space in THE FOUNTAIN, only here it sinks down, while there it's raising, but the idea to show racism as horror within the codes of the genre is actually quite unique and quite brilliant. Is it because it all nevertheless feels too constructed to touch my feelings? Yeah, I think that might be the point. The topic is dirty, but the filmmaking is just way too clean.