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Get Out Film Analysis

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In his 2017 horror film Get Out, Jordan Peele not only makes his director debut, but delivers a particularly insightful view into the state of racial affairs in modern America.The stories narrative follows an African American man named Chris, who goes to visit his white girlfriend's parents at their rural home only to uncover a horrifying plot in which the girlfriend and her parents are in fact racist and have been abducting black people and using their bodies in medical experiments involving the transfer of consciousness. On a surface level, the plot of the film has the ability to come across as quite simplistic in scope, an obvious labeling of privileged American whites as racist; however, a deeper analysis reveals careful consideration to …show more content…

In a nutshell, Coleman defines “Blacks in Horror Films” to be films in which black characters are featured and a greater commentary can be derived from the piece concerning African Americans and race even if that is not the films primary focus, such as Jurassic Park. On the other hand, “Black Horror Films” are films that concern themselves with race; their narratives, though possessing the tropes of conventional horror films, “call attention to racial identity...Black culture, history, ideologies, experiences...etc”(Means-Coleman). These films often have Black directors, primary actors, writers, and producers and are intended to speak to a Black …show more content…

Peele’s largest and perhaps most significant metaphor comes from a scene in which the main protagonist Chris is hypnotized by Missy, Rose’s mother, and sent to a room inside his own consciousness know as the “sunken place”. While attending the Los Angeles Times’ directors’ roundtable discussion, Peele stated that the sunken place operates as a metaphor for “the system that is suppressing the freedom of black people” and that it also represented the other minorities that are “marginalized”

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