Reality is the horror

Rating: 10/10 (27 May 2019)

There are a lot of movies that describe the black experience in America well. There are none that make you feel it viscerally as effectively as Get Out does. Don't just watch this as a horror movie. It's not what is intended. There is social commentary throughout. What you think are plot holes is your lack of movie comprehension. The movie makes you feel how hyper-aware we are when around groups of white people. The hypnosis is the cultural remains of living in a country where our roots are servitude and oppression - not just oppression of our body but our ego. The sunken place is emotional wound that get passed on from generation to generation. We feel less than, we feel immobilized, it is the culture that has done this to us. Get Out touches on the ugly way casual racism objectifies African Americans. How it otherizes us. When we are the other, what kind of treatment towards us is possible? When we are seen as sexual or athletic props, will we be treated with human dignity? Get Out comments on how white people have used us as parts in their system, in the movie very literally, to better their position but stealing our lives. Beyond all of the on point commentary, it's a beautifully and poignantly shot movie. The deer he hits with his car serves not only to make him flash back to his mother's death but him relating himself as the hunted who he empathizes with but his gf doesn't have the capacity to care about. She wants to jut drive on.