Get
Out 10/10
This
will have spoilers because I have so much to say about the movie Get
Out. I remember last year watching the trailer for this and going “I
must see this movie with a White person!” I got my wish! They
weren't with me but four White ladies were in the audience when I saw
this at the AMC. They probably saw me and were like “Aw, fuck...”
After twenty minutes of trailers (this movie theater needs to stop
that) I was ready to jump, laugh, and think way harder than I planned
on. This was directed by Jordan Peele and I am excited to see what he
does next. At the start a guy looking for directions and scared to be
in a suburban neighborhood is choked out and kidnapped and thrown
into the trunk of a car by a masked man. This stars Daniel Kaluuya as
Chris Washington. He and his girlfriend of five months Rose Armitage
played by Allison Williams plan to go visit her family for the first
time. Chris asks her if they know he is Black and she assures him
that they wont mind even though he is her first Black boyfriend.
While
heading to their place they end up hitting a deer. After Chris checks
on it and Rose talks to a cop he asks Chris for his ID. Chris is
ready to give it over but Rose protests. Chris thinks it was sexy. I
would have told her to shut up before I got shot. I know her
intentions are good, but fuck that. On the phone Chris' friend Rod
calls and warns Chris to be careful because of how White people are.
I cracked up every time this guy talked. He would say things I was
thinking and react the same way I would to what Chris was telling
him. Rod is played by Lil Rel Howery. He is watching Chris' dog while
he is away.
They
get to her parents place and Rose's father is just like she
described. Everything is “my man” and using slang to relate to
Chris. This is a real thing and embarrassing. Stop doing that. Her
parents are Missy and Dean played by Catherine Keener and Bradley
Whitford who I didn't even recognize. They remind Rose that a huge
gathering is this weekend. Their son Jeremy shows up and he is a
fucking mess. He is played by Caleb Landry who I also did not
recognize. Missy finds out that Chris smokes and Dean suggests that
Chris lets his wife hypnotize him and help him stop. Chris laughs it
off.
Later
that night when he cant sleep Chris heads outside to smoke when he
sees a groundskeeper Walter that he met earlier darting towards him
full speed. He suddenly cuts right. Chris looks up and sees the maid
Georgina played by Betty Gabriel acting all kinds of creepy. He heads
inside and ends up passing Missy in her study. She begins to
hypnotize Chris without his asking or wanting. He reveals that his
mother was hit by a car and died on the side of the road while
instead of calling the police to say she is missing or late he just
watched TV all night. He has tears just streaming down his face the
entire time until Missy puts him in the “sunken place.” He drops
into nothingness while watching her. He suddenly wakes in bed hearing
Rose showering. He figures it was all a dream.
Everyone
shows up for he gathering the next day and all the guests know Chris.
They size him up. Literally. His arms are squeezed. He is asked
questions out of the blue about Black culture. A Japanese dude even
asks him questions about being Black in America. Chris is creeped out
by all of this and walks away finding a blind man that buys art and
knows of Chris photography. I forgot to mention he does photography.
Chris spots another Black guy and when he turns around its the same
Black dude that was kidnapped at the start of the movie! He is
talking like an old man though and weird as shit. He introduces
himself as Logan King and he is played by LaKeith Stanfield. He is on
that show Atlanta. Chris ends up snapping a photo of him and he loses
his shit and starts sounding the way he did at the beginning of the
movie. Meaning like a Black guy.
Missy
helps make Logan better and Chris sends the picture he took to his
friend Rod. Rod recognizes him through mutual friends and sees that
he was reported missing six months ago. Chris phone keeps getting
unplugged and when he tells Rose the maid Georgina apologizes. Chris
says it is okay and Georgina ends up acting all strange and tears
roll down her cheek before she smiles and leaves. Rod, a TSA agent,
goes to the police and talks to Detective Latoya played by Erika
Alexander who I have not seen in years and is fine as fuck in this. I
actually said “Wow” when she popped up on screen. She of course
does not believe his story of White people capturing Black people and
making them sex slaves.
Chris
tells Rose it is time to leave after realizing that he was actually
hypnotized by her mother. But as he is packing he finds a book of
Rose's that is filled with her and other Black men. Remember, she
said he was her first (I've heard that one before...). He sees many
Black men, including the groundskeeper as well as the maid Georgina!
He is in full fuck this mode and tries to get out but is blocked by
the family and Rose who can not find her keys. She reveals to be a
part of all of this when Missy taps her spoon and sets Chris off. He
passes out and wakes up tied to a chair. A video shows the history of
this secret club where they transplant their minds into younger
bodies. At the moment they are using Black ones. Meanwhile Dean is
preparing to do surgery on the brains using that blind guy that knew
Chris.
Rod
has been calling Chris' phone and finally Rose answers acting
concerned but she is pure acting. She is stone faced talking to him
and saying that Rod wants to sleep with her. Rod hangs up. Chris is
sitting in the chair tied up and the son Jeremy shows up to take
Chris to surgery and doesn't know that Chris stuffed his ears with
the cotton from the chair he is seated in. Chris smashes his head
with a pool ball, stabs Dean with antlers, and spoons Missy to death.
I loved this scene because Chris is not rampaging, smashing sit, and
smiling. He is just calmly wrecking shit. He escapes and ends up
hitting Georgina with his car before tossing her inside because it
reminds him of what happened to his mother. Rose has a shotgun and
starts blasting at their asses and says “Grandma...” Oh, shit!
The maid has Grandma inside of her! And guess who the groundskeeper
is? Grandpa! Oh fuck!
I'm
gonna stop covering the movie right there. I have already spoiled a
bunch of shit. This movie was so damned good. I jumped a couple of
times. The story was paced perfectly too. As outlandish as the
premise sounds when reading it while watching it made perfect sense.
This movie had everything you could want. Great character
development, a lot of inside shit that means I will have to watch
this more than once to get. There are a lot of blog posts that point
out the significance of them. Go see this in theaters wile its still
there. I fucking loved this movie. Thanks to my cousin Jasmine for
pushing me to watch this.
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