The genius of Get Out is treating benign racism as the horror.
Daniel Kaluuya and Allison Williams (Marnie from Girls) star in Jordan Peele’s Get Out
You need to see this movie. It’s genuinely scary and funny AND it tackles oppression without once mentioning oppression. It’s consciousness-raising without the lecture. People who fancy themselves broad-minded think that because they voted for Obama, idolize black athletes and have black friends, they can’t possibly be racist, but benign racism is particularly insidious. (And the movie is produced by the studio that made Insidious.) Some of the horror comes from the shock of recognition.
Director Jordan Peele takes your expectations and turns them on their heads. Unrelentingly clever and expertly orchestrated, Get Out is required viewing for the year 2017. Bravo.
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March 22nd, 2017 at 05:08
You should check out Pete Holmes’s podcast You Made It Weird where Jordan got to talk a bit about the movie (presumably still in its embryonic stage at this point).
http://nerdist.com/you-made-it-weird-182-jordan-peele/
Also, as we’re also mentioning Pete Holmes, his HBO show Crashing is one of the best things on TV right now (especially the running theme about questioning his Christian faith and the circumstances leading to it).
March 26th, 2017 at 16:07
I like the movie. Fun fun!