Get Out
This was the second time that I watched this film and I think I enjoyed it more the second time, not because I understood it any better, but because I found small foreshadowing earlier on that I missed the first time. I want to discuss the fact that the Golden Globes nominated the film under the “Best Comedy or Musical Picture” for the upcoming show. Through research, I found out that it is actually the decision of Universal Pictures to nominate for a certain category, and that is the one they chose. I honestly could not understand less of why they made this move. Jordan Peele worked extremely close with Universal during the creation of the film and even said that he enjoyed the process most of the time and that executives understood his direction. Did Universal just miss the point of the film? Like many others, I went into the movie knowing that it was a critique of race relations in America, and it still surprised me. The creation of the ‘Sunken Place’ is all too real and a great piece of literary work that has become its own term in this genre. Not only that, but the film’s construction of the relationships between the characters was a marvel; it took the most stereotypical conversations and brought them to life in a documentary-esque style. I think the only place where this film can be seen as a comedy is in these interactions between the white and black characters. The old white folk rambling on about their admiration for Tiger Woods and their appreciation of Chris’s physical build is not funny, but I can see how people would think it is. It is NOT funny because it demonstrates the real way that some people act with people of different races. That is the horror; the situations are too real and, like some our readings have said, represent the actual social make-up of society at the time of release. I also can see how Chris’s TSA friend is a comic-relief character as well, but let’s be honest, not enough to make this a comedy. There is much more I could say but I will stop here.
