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6. Get Out (2017 film) (26.5 points)
Nominated by: trdl23 (0/5 remaining)

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Importance: 8
Fear: 8.5
Snake: 10

In what will surely go down as an absolute horror gem in the years to come, Get Out is a masterclass of subtext, subtle horror, satire, and ingenious character moments. Very few debut directors command the audience as well Jordan Peele, and yeah he's well-established, but writing and directing are two very different things. Everything in Get Out is in service to the story and its themes. It subverts everything you think you know about how horror movies work, how film in general works, and how gender and racial roles usually inform the plot. Chris and his white girlfriend, Rose Armitage, are heading to her parent's house so Chris can meet her parents for the first time. Rose on the surface is the perfect, understanding girlfriend, but all the while she's gaslighting Chris completely, as she functions more like an analogue of the "great white hunter", except substituting big game with black athletes. This is foreshadowed brilliantly in her hitting of a deer near the beginning of the film."

One of the best characters in the movie is Bradley Whitford as Dean Armitage, who is anything but subtle when trying to get acquainted with Chris, making his appreciation for African-Americans loud, apparent, and obvious in a way that absolutely comes off as insincere and disingenuous. I feel an underappreciated character is Caleb Landry Jones as Jeremy Armitage, who holds no pretense like his father, he's a lot more honest and off-the-cuff about his racism towards Chris. The black celebration parade almost becomes nauseating at a party where everyone constantly compliments Chris and athletes like Tiger Woods. As a white person myself, it really makes me hope I've never done anything like that in my life as it's a really horrible way to be and act. But I do like that Get Out makes me ask these questions in the first place, it's a film that truly extends its reach out to an audience of all races and makes us question our places in society and if it's all really a facade. It's deep and uncomfortable, but It also gives us a chance for growth and to learn from it too.

As I've said, I love the film's attention to detail. Chris as a photographer is integral to the plot; it's the camera flash to the eyes that snaps the Armitage's servants out of their hypnotized states, and ties in with Hudson's wanting of Chris' eyes to gain his natural eye and talent for art. Eyes also tie into the misdirection and mystery of the plot, as mearly everything we see is not the truth. One of my favorite subtle moments is when Chris is tied in a chair near the end, and literally has to pick cotton out of the arm rests to escape his confinement. That's an incredibly dark twisting of slavery if I've ever seen one. I also like when Dean is impaled by a deer head, ironically echoing his statements earlier about deers ruining the local ecosystem. Then there's the happy ending with Chris' friend Rob, giving the audience a breather and something positive to actually take away from the film and maybe try to change things towards the future. There's a whole bunch more where that came from, but we could be here all day discussing them!

Get Out is a film not scary because of a serial killer or ghost jump scares, but rather its implications and commentary on society, like a good old fashioned episode of The Twilight Zone. The scariest thing is how its "villains" are all really just normal everyday people, but with that classic dark undertone that lurks under every suburbia in the country and beyond. These are the people who could easily be your next door neighbors, the people you see grocery shopping. After all, everyone is hiding something, right?
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