GET OUT!

Films that leave you with unease every step of the way, I try to avoid as much as possible. But I can’t deny that there is this certain thrill that comes with movies that begin and fill you with unease. From the start up on till the ending. I’m not one to go out of my way to see such films, but on the occasion that I happen to stumble on such movies, like walking on your family seeing it, there is pretty much no room to Get Out.

Get Out (2017)

The film begins with a Black man, walking and talking on the phone on a street at night. A car soon pulls up beside him and sensing danger, the Black man begins to walk away briskly. A person wearing a helmet comes out of the car, tackles and subdues him, and gets him into the car. The scene cuts to Chris Washington, a black photographer in his late twenties who travels for the weekend to meet his white girlfriend, Rose Armitage’s family. He has an awkward conversation with her parents: Dean, who’s a neurosurgeon, and Missy, who’s a psychiatrist, but believes this weekend getaway will smoothen things between them.

Over dinner, Rose’s brother shares embarrassing stories of Rose as every brother would but Chris notices strange behaviour from Walter and Georgina, the black servants. He does not comment on it, however, but things soon switch from weird to straight-up eerie. On this weekend getaway, Chris begins to wonder what exactly he has gotten into and whether or not he will be able to Get Out, and that too, intact.

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This is one of those films I’m pretty sure every film lover must have seen, but I decided to share it today because I wanted to point out two of my favourite features in every cinematic piece. Slow burn and soundtrack. For every thriller, or horror comedy in this case, what brings the movie to life in my opinion is that element of slow burn. You want to feel the trepidation every step of the way, and with the help of intentional cut-scenes and a good soundtrack, the disaster waiting to happen atmosphere becomes solidified in the audience’s heart long before the actual disaster happens.

I loved that this film had these elements in spades. I was sick to my stomach in fear and with each scene wondered where exactly the way going with it. How worse could it get? And what are the chances that I would escape without being traumatized?

The storyline on its own was disturbing, and I kept wondering if it was a race thing or just a falling into the hands of extremely deranged people thing. At the end of the day, I was inconclusive on this and settled that it was both.

It was a thought-provoking and enlightening piece on race, and I did wonder how White people felt seeing it. Did they realize all the ways they could make a Black person uncomfortable by the things they say and their approach to things, or what? I spent a lot of time simply pondering on this film and having rather profound conversations with myself.

My only issue with this film was my ability to guess what was happening soon enough. It would have been a huge delight and added to my excitement if I was left guessing till the last moment and not understanding the sinister activities from the get-go. Altogether, it is a cinematic masterpiece I doubt I’d ever forget. Jordan Peele outdid himself.

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