Week 11
This week, we watched the film Get Out by Jordan Peele. I really liked this film, even though I got spoiled on the twist ending before I watched it. I think Peele does a really great job in adding this subtle hints in the movie making it even more impactful. Especially the scene with Rose and the Froot Loops. She has her past “conquest” posted behind her like she is a proud hunter. She also has a cup of milk and a bowl of Froot Loops beside her. This can be ready as a further view of her hyper realized white supremacy, she kept the colored cereal separate from the white milk. Peele does something different when portray8ing Rose as the villain. Which I fully believes her to be, I don’t think she is a victim in any way. In past films, like At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul where the female villain was portrayed as a witch. Depicting a gross, hideous character that wears their monstrosity. Rose, however, is depicted similar to later versions of vampires. She is visually beautiful with a hidden evilness. It further what we have talks about before in class, that is becomes harder to see who the monster is because it is no longer just a physical difference seen.
Something that Robin Coleman mentions is how “Blacks were pressed to enter into support relationships with Whites” (151). That idea can kind of be seen in Get Out. Rose’ family has that idea that they can take Black bodies to further their life. Thinking that there were only there to help support the White family. It also comes to point the theme of white ownership of Black bodies. Think links back to slavery and how Black bodies were treated as actionable goods. Coleman also talks about “the Other as a scapegoat” (167). I think that can be seen in just how Rose’s family acts. They have been able to get away with kidnapping this people and having no repercussions. Even when Chris is strangling Rose at the end, it seems like she feels that Chris will get the blame, which he does in the original ending. That idea of the Other being a scapegoat is kind of a real life thing. People who are not white often get the blame pushed on them. Like currently China shouldering the blame for COVID and people thinking its okay to call it offensive names like “China Virus” and “Kung Flu”.