Get Out [Blu-ray]

When this first came out---all I heard was people (who likely never saw it) bad-mouthing it as some BLM based driven move and just an agenda. Finally bought a copy (April 2025) and this is no such thing---Wonderful movie and acted very well....spooky in the way it tugs at the nerves, and plot deep enough to be worthy of a Hitchcock move. Remove any social aspect from you mind---creepy film and well worth the purchase.

I loved this movie! It makes me think twice about visiting friends who live out in the boonies. ;)

Very good movie. Ending unexpected. Highly recommend .

Perfect for family night

Finally saw this a few years late. Had heard that it was kind of groundbreaking in that it more than many movies showed a Black perspective on things. Entertaining, kept me interested. It's worth a watch.

received in good condition

Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) and Rose (Allison Williams) are the perfect couple. They’re in love and ready for the next big step: meeting Rose’s parents for the weekend. Chris has nothing to worry about. He’s a successful photographer, lives in a beautiful loft in the city, and has an adorable pet dog. What parent wouldn’t love him? There’s a problem: he’s African American… on his way to meeting two middle-aged Caucasians. Rose isn’t worried. Her parents are new-age and progressive. They’re lame and embarrassing, but they’re not bad people. It’s all good!Something is off the moment Chris enters the Armitage’s country home though. Almost every word that comes out of Dean’s mouth (Bradley Whitford) has racist undertones, and his wife Missy (Catherine Keener) is preoccupied with Chris’s smoking habit. She suggests hypnotism — part of her psychological practice — but he declines. There’s a weekend party that Rose knew nothing about, and all the guests are old people who seem a little too fascinated with Chris. And of course, there are the cringy “I love Tiger Woods“ type of conversations. Then there’s the “help.” They’re all African American, all strange-looking, with an almost ethereal quality to them. Chris is uncomfortable, and that’s an understatement. He has every reason to feel uneasy. Something IS off at the Armitage house, and he’s about to find out just how bad it’s about to get for him.I want to give nothing away. If you haven’t seen this film, then you’re better off going in with no preconceived notions. All I can tell you is that this is one of the creepiest and most symbolic horror films I have seen in recent date! It’s the kind of horror that sneaks up on you as if from nowhere. It doesn’t contain gore, random jump-scares, or other tried-and-true horror tropes (OK, there are some tropes, but only the good ones). It triggers you to the core, making you squirm with all the built-up tension. To be honest, this is more of a Psychological Thriller than a full-on horror, and it’ll resonate to those who loved THE SHINING, THE STEPFORD WIVES or THE SIXTH SENSE. The acting is spot on, the tension almost tangible. So much symbolism and plot subliminals. This is a “thinker’s thriller,” one that would make you want to watch repeatedly.I love Jordan Peele. I’m a huge fan since his MAD TV days. He and Keegan are so talented, but I always had a softness for Peele. While Keegan-Michael Key is the bigger “showman” of the two, Jordan Peele is the more creative one. He’s so versatile! He seems to enjoy thought-provoking material, and I can’t wait to watch his other movies. US is on my to-watch list. Now that I’m visiting family and friends during the holidays, I can kick back and watch stuff out of enjoyment, and not just as work. I can sit back, visit people, wear my “guest room clothes,” most of which is too big on me now (woo-hoo!), and enjoy binge-watching the way it should be!Downsides? I wanted more light comic moments from Chris’s best friend, Rod (Lil Rel Howery). Such an awesome character! Five super-delicious Minty-Sweet Mocha lattes!

The film Get Out, produced and distributed in 2017, is a perfect representation of the ideology of Race in America. Chris and his girlfriend have reached the meet-the-parents milestone of dating, so she decides to invite him for a weekend getaway upstate with Missy and Dean. At first, Chris reads the family’s overly accommodating behaviour as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter’s interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined. Get Out uses props as a component of mise-en-scene to reveal the ideology of race to its audience. One example of this is Rose keeping her white milk separate to her coloured cereal. This is an intentional frame that director Jordan Peele reveals to the audience. The close up of the coloured Fruit Loops and glass of white milk allows the audience to notice that Rose’s character has the ability to keep these things separate. She then takes a sip of the milk through a black straw. This is another example of the implied ideology of race. Audiences gather their thoughts around this and come to the conclusion that America may still be divided by colour, and that race is still an active part of their cultural landscape. The first time Rose is introduced to the audience, she’s in a denim dress and this was very purposeful. Denim represents the “All-American” girl. In fact, for most of the film, both Rose and Chris are portrayed to the audience as the “All-American” couple, constantly being seen by the audience wearing a combination of red, white and blue colour schemes. All of the Armitages and their guests wear red, which is a symbol of their secret society. The colour red, of course, is associated with blood, and they don’t mind spilling lots of it to get what they want. Chris wears no red whatsoever, and this is one of the things that marks him as an outsider. The main title is called Sikiliza Kwa Wahenga. That means “Listen to the elders” in Swahili. The voices are meant to represent the departed slaves and lynching victims. They are trying to reach Chris, the lead character, and speak to him from beyond. The film had them say things in Swahili that they would be saying if they were trying to warn him. To conclude, in the opening song entitled Run Rabbit Run by Noel Gay and Ralph Butler, the rabbit represents black people persecuted by the farmer, the allegorical white race. This foreshadows that the Armitage family will try and catch Chris. The metaphor of Chris as the rabbit is strengthened by the fact that the Armitage family serves carrot cake to Chris on his first visit to the house. Chris’s desperate flee from the house at the resolution of the film symbolizes the rabbit’s flee from the farmer.