Anthony Lane Get Out Analysis

I really enjoyed Anthony’s Lane review of “Get Out,” starting from where he talks about Chris encountering when he first meets Rose’s parents. When Chris and Dane (Rose’s dad) have a one-one conversation, Dane begins by justifying how bad it must look to Chris to be a white family with a black groundskeeper and a black house cleaning and ends the conversation by saying how he would have voted for Obama in 3rd term if he could. In the review, Anthony Lane writes, “What we have here, in other words, is the spectacle, at once touching and comical, of good liberals falling over themselves to prove their moral credentials.” I think this quote is really funny and 100% true because of my experience growing up in the South around a majority of white people. White liberals find it absolutely necessary to reinsure
everyone that they aren’t racist by showing how progressive that they are.
Then, when looking at Chris’ experience at the party Peele shows a realistic and brutal honest experience of African Americans at predominantly white gatherings. Shown from the comments that are made to Chris, which are all relate back to the fact that he’s black. From the golf pro telling Chris that he knows Tiger Wood and an inappropriate white woman hypersexualizing Chris. Coming from a predominantly white school, these microaggressions and assumptions about an universal African American experiences were a common occurrence. I think living in the 21st century, these offensive commentary by ignorant and unknowing people have gradually reduced as a result of technological and people’s willingness to know be open and discuss things like racism. However, these commentaries are beginning to decrease, its still prevalent in today’s society and I think most black people will 100% have some kind of experience at least like this once in their lifetime.
But, I think my favorite thing about the article is when Lane says, “What will shock them, rile them, and quite possibly divide them is the fact that race—not gender, not country, not class, but race—accounts for every inch of violence that we see.” Get Out is listed as a horror/thriller, but it is in a way so much more than just that category and Peele intentionally doesn’t even highlight the actually parts of gruesome violence.
Chris is only driven to the brink of using such an exclusive use of force because he’s about to be place into the Sunken Place and all traces of himself as a human being/personality will cease to exist and play second fiddle to whoever they put inside his body. The violence is like horror, but the reasoning of a showdown between races is unlike horror movies today and I think it makes Get Out dynamic and more interesting. Overall, I think that the horror aspects relates to the form of black oppression/slavery/prison system that Rose’s family and their community participates in by essentially snatching unaware African Americans and using them for their physical attributes like to be stronger/faster, ‘fit in’, or erven for their
eyes.