"this bitch is crazy. bitch is crazy."
Get Out (2017) dir. Jordan Peele
is it bad that me and my dad use this as a reference when were uncomfortable?
Jordan Peele's 'Get Out' captures the essence of the feeling of 'other' so perfectly that now it's become a reference between me and my dad when we become the only black people in a situation. Like when we go to a seaside town on holiday and we get stared at in public like were alien. i was telling my friend about this actually, he's white. he'd never watched the film until about two days ago when he emphatically told me it was amazing. i then watched it with my mum a couple days later and she said the ending was predictable. but to me, this film will always be clever.
take the auction scene for example. chris wears blue, and everyone else (including his 'safe' girlfriend) are wearing red. immediately your eyes are drawn to him and how the blue singles him out. additionally when the brainwashed andre is standing alone in a tan suit he stands alone, but as his wife passes him a red handkerchief he becomes unsafe, unfamiliar and not a "brother".
the way that chris handles himself seems like very african-american culture, and as a British person i don't think it makes complete sense to me to act in the same way but the interactions Peele writes makes the audience understand that this is all very weird.
i don't think that if i ever go to America I'll understand black culture, even black culture in britian is a bit disillusioned to me. however, if there is anything this film has taught me about being black, it's not to go to your white girlfriend's parents' house in the countryside when you know that you're gonna wanna Get Out.
