I went out to see Get Out the new movie from Jordan Peele Sunday and I wanted to share my thoughts on the movie and give a review.
If you haven't see the trailer for the movie yet, which I don't understand how that’s possible, because it's been the most talked about to thing since inside out Oreos. But any way you'll find a trailer below and then you can back to reading my review.
Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) believes that he is going away with his girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams) for an innocent weekend getaway to meet her parents. But in reality, it's something much more horrific.Chris has worries right of the bat because he's black and Rose is white. Rose assures him that it doesn't matter and her parents aren't racist. When he meets, them they seem nice enough but the dad seems like he’s trying too hard to be ‘the cool white guy,’ and trying to assure Chris that he isn’t racist. As the movie progresses Chris also meets two servants that work for Rose’s family, Walter and Gerorgina. They are also black and they act as though they’re in a zombie like state. This is something Chris notices immediately and brings it up to Rose and his best friend Rod who he calls several times through the movie to update him on the strange things he’s experiencing.
Without giving too much of the movie away Rose’s family as a “special” business that takes particular interest in both black men and women. During the movie, you’re at the edge of your seat excited to know what’s going to happen to Chris. Will he live? Will he die? Will he expose Rose’s family secret?
I’ve never had an interracial relationship but I’m completely open to the possibility of having one. And just like anyone in a same race relationship people dating someone of an opposite race have the same fears. It’s just heighten times 10 as they have to worry how they will be perceived not being the same race as the parents’ son or daughter.
Peele not only touches on this subject but there are also subtle things that you have to pay particular interest to in order to pick up on that touches on race and politics. I thought that Peele did a wonderful job and I’m excite to see more projects from him. Even though the trailer pretty much tells you what’s going on in the movie, we don’t know what Chris’ fate will be in the end. So, we begin rooting for him to make it out alive.
If you go see the movie let me know what you thought.