"Get Out" Movie Review by Hypnotist Michael White

Rating: 3/10 (23 March 2017)

!!! "SPOILER ALERT" !!!
Overall, I was quite disappointed in this film, maybe because of all the hype around it from "non-hypnotist".
In the film, young black men are lured to a country home by their "girlfriend" under the guise of "meeting the parents", where they soon undergo a "body snatchers"-esk, surgical transplantation of a wealthy person's consciousness, to take control of their body, while part of them remains trapped inside their own mind.
The process is 3 steps, first hypnosis to subdue the victim and plant a post-hypnotic suggestion to re-induce a paralyzing trance whenever needed. The second step is a form of mental torture and brainwashing techniques to further tear down the victims will and condition them for the transfer. The third and final step is a surgical transplant of the invading brain matter into the victim's brain to take over the conscious actions of the victim as the new "puppet master" of the victim's body and mind.
If you don't catch the brief explanation of the 3 steps, you may be misguided into thinking that "hypnosis" is the only tool used to "control" these victims.
While the initial induction used in the film would be plausibly effective, asking "shocking or surprising" questions before eliciting a revivification of a childhood trauma, while simultaneously anchoring the experiences to a visual and auditory queue (tea cup and spoon). The film doesn't elaborate on any "post-hypnotic" suggestions to re- induce trance.
Furthermore, once rapport and trust were broken between the hypnotist and the victim, any subsequent attempts to utilize the post-hypnotic suggestion would fail. The film eludes to a perception that the victim has no control over whether or not the post-hypnotic suggestion would work or not, which is completely contrary to reality.
In hypnosis reality, the subject is always in control, and can actively choose whether or not to comply with a suggestion or not. Therefore the film leaves viewers, who may have no understanding of the hypnotic process, with the illusion that hypnosis is some sort of "mind control" technique, which is completely false. The film starts off with a lot of buildup, but seems to rush the ending, showing only minimal details about what's really going on, which is a shame, because more detail would have made the movie more enjoyable.
I would not recommend this film, mostly because of the poor execution of the plot overall, and also for the miss-representation of how hypnosis works in real life. It's a shame that filmmakers continue to perpetuate this miss-information about hypnosis in general.
Hypnosis is not something that was invented in a lab, it's a natural human process that was observed and then later, labeled. We all experience hypnotic trance states multiple times in a day, every day, we are just not consciously aware of when it happens. When these natural states are used purposefully, instead of accidentally, then massive positive changes are possible.