Get Out Film Techniques

The movie Get Out is a horror-thriller that tackles systematic racism. Jordan Peele, who directed the movie was nominated best original screenplay, best picture, best actor, and best director. He ultimately won best original screenplay. With that being said, it has incredible visual effects, forecasting, and symbolism. The movie occurs in a modern day society with an African American male (Chris) dating a white female (Rose). Five months into the relationship she then introduces them to each other for the first time at her parents house. It would take a turn when he put the pieces together and finds out that Rose and her family were not the typical suburb family they portraying to be. Get out is a movie of theory and can be taken into many
concepts when analysing it. The director states himself that parts of the movies are done intentionally for certain reasons.
The movie begins with an African American man walking around a suburb late at night talking on the phone. During the phone call, you can hear him say to the person on the line that she has him feeling like a “sore thumb” with that being said you can tell he feels out place as a African American male in a rich white suburb.
Soon after you are taken to a scene where you see a the camera moving around Chris’s apartment. It focuses on his artwork hanged on the walls which happened to be in black and white. While you’re focus on the artwork in the background Redbone by Childish Gambino is playing. The lyrics state “stay woke” and is said multiple times during that scene. It can later be a reference to Chris who needs to be alert during his stay with Rose’s parents. While on the way to Rose’s parents home, Chris’s good friend Rod Williams, calls him and jokingly states the advice he gave him “don’t go to white girl’s parents house” which is something stereotypical to state when it comes to the suppose dangers on a black man dating a white woman. During the drive, Chris and Rose begin to joke with each causing her to be distracted from the road and striking a deer. Even though, Chris was not driving the white policeman asked him for his I.D provoking Rose to intervene and voice that there was no reason for that when he was doing nothing wrong. It brings up the issue a black man endures in which most cases a white policeman is racially
profiling them with no cause given. At the end of the movie her intentions to doing that is so there isn't a paper trail back to her name. Finally arriving, Chris meets Rose’s parents Dean, a neurosurgeon, and Missy, a hypnopsis. While, Dean is giving Chris a tour of the house, he mentions the “clicheness” of a white family having black servants and gives a backstory, hopeful that Chris can understand it and think nothing wrong of it. He starts to notice the black servants acting strangely as if their against their will but stating they are not. Soon after Rose’s relatives start arriving for the family party. During the visit, Chris and Rose go around greeting family in which they all state racial comments such as mentioning Tiger Woods in a golfing conversation, sexual performance, and stating “black is in” once again being stereotypical and cliche of African Americans.

At one point of his stay at Rose’s parents house her mother puts Chris in hypnosis.She then gets deep into to his mind and puts him into the “the sunken place”.It can later be seen as a metaphor for the paralysis people of color feel in racial America. During the time in the sunken place he was paralyzed and couldn't speak. People of color can relate and infer that feeling stuck in the modern world. They have to watch their words in public and not be able to fully express them self because it is look uponed the “superior”.