Amazing new-age hor-com

Rating: Null/10 (6 March 2019)

Jordan Peele's Get Out is a fantastic new age "hor-com" that touches on societal themes of interracial relationships, suppression of voice, and the what-ifs of future sciences of the human body. The film presents itself as a horror the moment the audience is shocked by the sudden and frightening sound of a deer hitting Chris and Rose's car while on their way to Rose's parents house for a weekend trip. Aside from that rather unexpected scene, the movie opens up almost disguised as a 21st century rom-com, which it most definitely is not. From the start, Get Out has scenes with extremely subtle instances of foreshadowing that will make you tilt your head as if you had just missed a joke, but so briefly that you are no longer concerned with what you may have "missed out on." Viewers who have already seen the movie and watch it for a second or third time will be able to notice these hints and get that overwhelming feeling of "I should have seen this coming from the start."
*Spoilers Ahead*
The first instance that we see where Peele touches on the societal "issue" of interracial couples is seen when Chris asks Rose if her parents know that he is black, while Rose and her family is white. She says they do not know but that should not matter. She goes on to say that her dad would vote for Obama in office again and says "he will tell you that too." As Chris and Rose get to her parents house, her mother and father both appear to be very welcoming of the idea of an interracial relationship, but the moment Rose's brother, Jeremy, comes home we start to see some tension and awkwardness between him and Chris. The small weekend getaway quickly turns into an entire family get-together when Rose is told that the annual hosting is that weekend. Various scenes of family members closely observing Chris and inspecting him physically and mentally fuel the theme of the uncertain social status of interracial relationships among the older generations.
The theme of suppression of voice is not very clearly seen to the first time viewer. The first night of Chris and Rose's stay, Chris steps out for a cigarette late at night. Upon entering, Rose's mother asks Chris if he would like for her to hypnotize him to help rid of his habit. He declines but she asks him to sit with her wherein she, unknowingly to Chris, begins to hypnotize him anyway. She sends him into something she calls the Sunken Place where Chris is able to see and hear everything going on around him but is unable to control his body or speak. This directly connects to the idea that minorities voices are commonly suppressed by media in todays society.
*MAJOR spoilers ahead*
The instance where the horrors of evolution in science and technology becomes apparent is in the final scenes of the movie. Up until we see Chris wake up in the basement of the house strapped to a chair, we are getting the idea that something strange is going on between the family and the ownership of African Americans. The true horror is revealed when we see the brain transplant process that is about to happen between Chris and his buyer. What is truly horrific about this is the idea that technology is not very far off from procedures like such and perhaps one day could become a common operation to be fitted into a new body as your previous one grows old.
Peele's first taste into horror resulted in a fantastic symphony of comedy, psychological horror, and extrapolating on the direction society is heading. This movie has instantly become, what some might consider, a new-age classic horror film and has likely (and hopefully) changed the game just enough to continue breathing success into future 'pop-culture' horror films.