To begin with, I will say the main thing. "Get Out" is an event movie. This is not an appraisal, but an objective fact. The directorial and screenwriter debut of the 38-year-old New York actor and comedian Jordan Peele was shot for four and a half million dollars, and in the world box office already collected about 200. In addition, he entered the top ten pictures, which received an approval rating of 99% (provided over 100 reviews) on the Rotten Tomatoes aggregator site. Critics and the public are unanimous: this picture cannot be missed. They are right. The film is fascinating, funny, angry and virtuoso.
In a discussion about American racism that has flared up in recent years, this picture will remain the same cornerstone as the films "12 Years a Slave" and "Moonlight", rap Kendrick Lamar and Colson Whitehead’s novel "The Underground Railroad". It is not surprising that all these cultural phenomena, primarily in the United States, but not beyond, awaited the success of the storm. Which does not mean that “Get Out” is just a movie about racism or that it is a purely American phenomenon. In any place and any culture where xenophobia exists and suffer from the infringement of minority rights (that is, simply everywhere), this picture will seem ridiculous, creepy and timely.
The directing class is felt in "Get Out" from the first scene - the witty shifter. We are accustomed to seeing in the cinema a lonely white man, who at night walks through a disadvantaged area, where African-American gangsters are about to attack him. And here on the screen is the same lonely black man, who got lost in a white area - and he is just as uncomfortable and scary, because this area is very prosperous. Of course, for him the walk will end badly. A little later, viewers will be told that he was missing.
However, let's not get ahead. The trouble is that here in general it is impossible to get ahead of the plot. This film is one of those for which spoilers are murderous. And not at all because it is built on a shocking climax: connoisseurs of the genre will guess a lot in advance, and no less pleasure is guaranteed already on re-viewing, when everything is known in advance. Just the path from ignorance to knowledge, everyone must go on their own. The drama "Get Out" is original and clever: to understand what is happening more or less clearly you start the minute at the seventieth. In addition, you are intrigued from the very beginning.
However, nothing tells you about the characters. Black Chris Washington (British Daniel Kaluuya, mainly, a serial artist) - a young, optimistic, promising photographer. His white girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams, she is Marnie from "Girls") invites Chris to spend a weekend with her parents; at the same time and meet. Actually, parents are a respectable liberal couple (Bradley Whitford and Catherine Keener): he is a neurosurgeon, she is a hypnotherapist. Also their kind and friendly guests, and a black servant - as in the good old South. Moreover, everyone considers it his duty to make Chris a compliment. Seeing this idyllic picture, he immediately feels ill at ease. Only a long time cannot understand why. When he understands, it is too late.
The easiest thing would be to interpret "Get Out" as a picture of the innate, indestructible racism of the white man, who finds himself in the most bizarre forms and at the most unexpected moment. However, this reading would instantly turn a paradoxical film into a flat agitation. This is about a completely different thing: how uncomfortable the world lives today in the new conditions of almost achieved (but, of course, mirage) equality. Here you can substitute any equality: gender, race, orientation, political views. It is worth the situation to go beyond the limits of the norm - and we have long ceased to understand what the “norm” is, and instincts will wake up and take over. So much so, that will not find it. Horror will come. All breathe a sigh of relief, forgetting about political correctness.
Largely, Peele is trying to answer the most important, unasked question: "Why did Obama rule two terms, but America has changed so little — so little that it chose Trump after him?" There are many possible answers, but they all lie in the socio-political plane. "Get Out" from this goes in the direction of the fundamental laws of the human psyche, denying the very idea of equality. Manipulation, exploitation, egoism, direct violence - everything that goes back to cave times and controls us since then, with time has not lost its strength, but only strengthened.
https://youtu.be/xnkgiINreIk[GET OUT Trailer (2017)](https://youtu.be/xnkgiINreIk)
Speaking more simply, no matter how high technologies humankind rules, power issues will always be solved in the old manner. Who has the power that is true. People are divided into those who have a loaded revolver, and those who dig. That is all equality. Although, as shows "Get Out", if you really try, you can dodge and crack a person with a revolver with a shovel on the head. On the other hand, it is, of course, a fantasy - this happens only in the movies. In reality, the weak against the strong always have only one effective weapon: a sense of humor. The proof of this is the movie "Get Out".
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