AMERICAN TRAUMA TURNED INTO THE HORROR

Rating: 7/10 (22 April 2020)

American Society has undergone certain traumas, racial discrimination being one of them. US racial discrimination has a long history in society and along with its articulation in the law, politics, education and the arts. The movie "Get Out" engages and represents the common racial innuendoes which can be experienced in US society even nowadays. The "Get Out" looks like a science fiction-drama in the cerebral sorting of people. Several similar points, like a mass brainwashing and ethnic bias, make this movie closer to the public masses that were indoctrinated to hatred in, using similar methods (Holocaust movies, 1984, or The Human Centipede or closed society conspiracy movies.)
In the movie "Get Out" the closed society of medical professionals develops the racial theory, in which they exercise white supremacy over black people. African Americans are subject to medical experiments, sexual slavery, and domestic duties. The movie underlines the typical stereotype of African Americans (unable or incapable of mental or intellectual enterprises) and shows how racial microaggression can be multi-faceted. For example, when Dean Armitage, the Caucasian head of this closed club, meets with Chris, the African American boyfriend of Dean's daughter, he (father) denies his own racism by avowing that he supported Obama as the First African American President. It is a typical hook for people who try to refute the racist accusations by declaring that voting for Obama gives immunization from racial discrimination allegations.
Another example of emphasizing the racial stereotypes in the movie is how the guests of "the symposium" (in fact - auction) looked at Chris. They looked at him as an object, like goods for sale, not as a person. Guests paid attention only to Chris's physical appearance, not to his personality, his talents as a photographer and etc.
In the ending of movie, the brain of African Americans are just simply removed and trashed in a bin. Metaphorically, the scene of throwing Georgina's scalp in the thrash can symbolizes Dean Armitage's racism theory. They are interested only in the bodies, not in the brain (soul). The racist neuroscientists pay attention to the physical body, not mental capabilities of the brain of African Americans. Moreover, the final scenes reveal that "crazy brain scholars" believe the use of the body of an African American can increase their own lifespan.
Thus, the movie allows viewers to extract a number of racial innuendoes. However, all of them can be qualified as verbal and non-verbal. Verbal elements of the movie constitute the bias of white characters against the black people which can be detected directly as racism of the main characters. Non-verbal scenes open the metaphorical level of the expression of racial attitudes of people who exercise their racial prejudice and bias. The movie does not give solutions, but it switches the American problems into the horror genre and focuses viewers to rethink the problem in the thriller framework.