Get Out, written and directed by Jordan Peele

Get Out, written and directed by Jordan Peele

Get Out is acclaimed as one of the best films of 2017, nominated for Golden Globes and four Oscars…

In addition, some of the most important ones at that:

Best Motion Picture of the Year, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, Best Achievement in Directing and

Best Original Screenplay.

In my opinion, there are small chances for the film to win in any of the categories, albeit Moonlight was an outsider last year.

For this viewer it was lucky that the information that this is a horror film was missing initially, for I would have a different, negative mindset, for I tend not to watch this genre of motion pictures…

-          What am I saying, I never watch horror knowingly…

-          Well, if it is appreciated as one of the best movies of the year, it must be noticed and watched, at least for some minutes

Get Out starts out reasonably and it continues like that, on the horrifying front anyway, where there is not much to terrify audiences.

We have a deer that dies, when the car of the protagonists hit it on the road and the poor animal makes a very upsetting, painful sound.

Moreover, this happens in the first few minutes, while white Rose Armitage aka Allison Williams drives Chris Washington aka the Oscar nominated Daniel Kaluuya to her parents’ home in the country.

Chris is African American and much of the story revolves around that, from the moment when he asks his girlfriend if her parents are aware that he is black.

After they hit the deer, they call the police and the white man of the law asks for the ID of the man in the car…

“Why are you asking for his ID? He wasn’t driving?” Is a reasonable attitude, although the policeman explains that this is standard procedure after an accident happens…only the fact that he is asking an African American raises a question, or more

Once they arrive at the estate, where there is a large, luxurious mansion and a sizeable property, a series of strange incidents start to happen, some of which made me smile, again, not knowing this is actually a horror film.

The parents are apparently friendly and accommodating, albeit in an outré manner and Missy Armitage, the mother, is soon somewhat harsh with the African American servant who spills some tea.

Missy is a psychiatrist and the father, Dean, is a surgeon who quickly asks if Chris is smoking and specifies that the analyst of the family had cured him, through hypnosis, making him sick at the thought of cigarettes.

During the night, the guest walks out to smoke a cigarette, observing the weird behavior of the maid and being almost run over by the gardener, who is also African American, at least in appearance, while he is jogging…in the middle of the night.

On the next day, a large group of guests arrives for the annual party and they all act like if this is a Vampire Ball, one of them measuring the muscles on Chris ‘arms, another saying that Black is in fashion.

The only other African American at this shindig acts in a way that suggests he is either hypnotized or…someone else is in control of his mind.

Chris is intrigued and more and more suspicious of all this “paranormal” activity until a nadir is reached.

The “brother” who seems to be “owned” by a rather corpulent, twice as old woman has a strange breakdown:

When Chris uses the flash of his phone, the only other African American guest attacks him viciously.

This is explained as an effect of the epilepsy that is plaguing the young man, but The hero knows about this disease and is convinced the clarification is actually a lie and in line with all the “shit” that has been going on at this weird place.

When he understands that something awful is taking place, after finding on the internet about the identity of the “epileptic” man, who has been missing for some years, after a career as a jazz musician in New York and is now transformed into a completely different, outlandish “sex slave”, Chris decides to leave right away.

Rose says she loves him and shows compassion, while deciding to find an excuse and leave the parents’ house earlier.

This is where it becomes terrifying and without going into details, I will just say that Things Fall Apart.

Get Out is a good motion picture, notwithstanding the fact that it is not really my cup of tea and some propositions are preposterous…