REVIEW #203 Get Out (2017)

Chris, an African American, agrees to visit his Caucasian girlfriends parents for a weekend getaway and although they seem perfectly normal at first, Chris couldn’t expect the horrors that would unfold later.


Get Out uses the very real issues of racism in the modern day and combines them with a surreal horror experience that elevates the movie above what I would consider a usual horror flick. Jordan Peele’s storyline constantly treads the line of realism and almost supernatural at times, playing tricks with the audiences mind as they try to configure what is really happening to the protagonist Chris. The performances are definitely one of the stand out aspects of the film, with Daniel Kaluuya delivering a captivating performance, but it was actually Allison Williams who surprised me the most. The way she switched her character Rose from the bubbly and kind girlfriend to the psychopathic abductor was extraordinary and she freaked me out to say the least. Whilst Betty Gabriel and Marcus Henderson (Georgina and Walter) were brilliant at portraying the captives, turned Armitage family members. They generated that constant sense of unease, not only for Chris in the film but amongst the audience too. My main criticism for Get Out was the final twenty minutes or so, the moment it’s revealed that the family are performing brain surgery to switch consciousnesses from the elderly white folk into the strong and able African Americans, I was left disappointed. I think if they just stuck to the hypnosis aspect, it would have worked a lot better! It would have maintained that sense of realism because despite whether you believe hypnosis works or not, we do have people claiming it’s success in real life, that realism would have made the film much more horrifying compared to what we actually got in the end. Up until that point the scariest thing for me was the fact that I actually believed something like this could happen, that realisation that there are a lot of crazy racists who could go and do something like this and I believe that was the intention of Jordan Peele, who highlighted both the casual racism and the extreme racism that goes on in our world. The cinematography was brilliant and helped elevate the horror aspects of the film, playing on shadows and the dark settings of the secluded wilderness. I’m so glad they rereleased the film into cinemas because the musical score on the surround system was amazing and enhanced the tension from start to finish. I’m not usually a fan of horror films in the slightest but the constant sense of realism (apart from the final 20 mins) is what shot Get Out straight to being one of my favourite horror films! I’d definitely recommend it if you haven’t seen it already, especially for anyone looking for a unique addition to the genre.


Overall (8.7/10)

Thanks for reading.

Callan

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