Jordan Peeles directorial debut, Get Out, follows the horrors a young black man undergoes while visiting his white girlfriend’s family. Most of his entertainment career has been centered around comedy, but his transition from that into horror has been so seamless because of his ability to encapsulate aspects of both genres. An aspect of the film I enjoyed was how it reaffirmed that a white person doesn’t need to be a Neo Nazi or apart of the KKK in order to be racist and reflects our current reality of self-proclaimed white liberals who believe they’re holier-than-thou white people who aren’t as complicit in systemic racism just because they voted for Obama twice. The audience knows what the families’ true intentions with Chris are and what their hostility towards him is rooted in, but it’s the process and pace of which its revealed is what makes the film so unsettling. Another aspect I liked was the Armitage’s using black people to gain their physical characteristics because it represents the history of white people using back bodies as mules for their own benefit. It’s the little things such as that which make the film so good because Peele manages to squeeze in all the nuances that come with being a black person in a white environment
Great points here. After watching the film the first time, I had to remind myself of all the laughable moments it has, even though most of Act 3 is almost all horror.