As TIME noted in its recent profile, “’When Obama was elected, for eight years, we lived in this postracial lie,’ Peele says. This is the area of the film most informed by Peele’s own experiences. Now white people have “I voted for Obama” to prove we’re not racist. How could they be racists? They voted for Obama! We don’t need to seek out our one black friend anymore. On the trip to the parents’ house, Chris and Rose do unfortunately encounter a seemingly racist cop, but once at the house, the parents (Bradley Whitford, Catherine Keener) turn out to be perfectly welcoming, enlightened liberals, the type who don’t even seem to notice the color of Chris’ skin. Something bad is going to happen we just don’t know what or why. Or is it? Might any unpleasantness on this trip be in Chris’ head, the anxiety of a man in an unfamiliar place and stuck in a stressful situation? This is thanks to an opening scene which sees a young black man abducted from the sidewalk of an upper-crust white neighborhood and thrown into a car while the old ‘30s ditty “Run, Rabbit, Run” plays in the background.Īs such, when we meet our main characters, Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) and his girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams), in their impressively well-furnished mid-town Manhattan apartment we know it’s a big deal when Rose admits she hasn’t actually told her parents that Chris is black. The bulk of the horror-related content, which is indeed darker than you’d expect, doesn’t actually happen until the final 20 minutes, yet we are put ill at ease from the get-go. It is about an interracial couple that goes to meet the white girlfriend’s parents at their stately manor in upper New York, and it explores this sort of feeling of alienation that Chris, the lead, feels as being “the other.” As the movie goes on, it inches towards this inevitable finale that is darker than anyone could have predicted. It’s the horror version of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. As such, here’s the spoiler-lite logline Peele, who wrote and directed the movie, recently offered up on Variety’s Playback podcast: Jordan Peele’s insta-classic new horror movie Get Out is difficult to discuss without veering too far into spoiler territory. Get Out’s big twist will not be spoiled in this review.
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