Get Out (2017)

Get Out was an amazing movie that captivated audiences with their theme of the "Post racial world". The hype surrounding the film was built really high so the expectations were high. The trailer was fast paced, the trailer really got people paying attention to a story that's rarely told in the film industry. Although the movie itself was quite slow and they really took their time reaching the climax which in the end I thought was better because there was more tension present, the movie got off to quite a slow beginning and picked up the pace a lot slower than I originally expected. The movie is about an African-American man going to meet his girlfriend's (Rose) family in the country. He first mentions if they know he is of a different race and Rose tells him he has nothing to worry about. The trip doesn't get off to the best off starts when something happens on the drive up to the house. Chris is slowly welcomed into the house with a tour around the property where he notices something about the people that work there, they also have a family dinner where her brother acts very strange. The family throws a party and that is where we can slowly but surely see the penny starting to drop with Chris by the end of the event after an encounter with another African-American. He then tells Rose that he wants to go home, returning to the house the movie reaches the climax it was building to and then a shock twist changes the way the audience viewed a character. I think the title "Get Out" is symbolic to the world we live, where we need to realize that everyone is equal and no one is superior to the other. GET OUT of the thought process/views that some people still live with from decades ago. One of the characters called Rod tries to help his friend Chris, who gets brought to their house by their daughter Rose. I think he is not taken seriously by the officers as they probably believe the world has moved on from that time where people viewed black people as slaves and everyone has became more viewed as equals. I think the officers find Rod's story of the white family seemed a bit far fetched for them and maybe that is because of the timeline of the film. The world is trying to move away from those times, you can see that especially over the last few years. Them making this movie was a big deal because in the film industry the tend to stray from telling stories like this and they done is such a smart way. Another example of the film industry trying to go into this topic was 12 years a Slave. I haven't watched this but I have heard that it is an extraordinary film. The sunken place the movie mentions a couple of times. To me the sunken place was a place where someone would go in your mind but when you come back you wouldn't be the same person you were before, you'd be changed by what you experienced emotionally and physically while in the sunken place. Jordan Peele (the director) actually stated later after the movie was released that we are all in the sunken place. We are all marginalised in this world. That no mater how loud or hard people may scream you won't be heard because the system silences us. It's an expression that was made for people who feel marginalised more than ever because of Donald Trump, they actually mention in the movie that the dad would have voted Obama for a third time if he could have. Overall it was a fantastic thriller. The audio used was amazing, the actors were phenomenal and the cinematography was very strategically used which I loved. Get Out is a tough act to follow and definitely the thriller to beat. People will try to beat for a long time and that will be very hard.