Becca Brancato- 10/31/17

      Hello class, and Happy Halloween! Today, we watched Get Out directed by Jordan Peele. We have been talking about this in class for the past few days. We have gone over the director’s choices that he made to have the audience relate to the film much better, along with the racial aspect of the film. Yesterday, we talked about microaggression and related it to the movie. But now, on to the movie.
      Get Out starts with an African American man walking in a neighborhood, completely lost. He is followed by a car, when someone finally gets out. The driver ends up killing the beginning character. There is no context to this, it just kind of happens. It gives us a little bit of an outlook to the racial aspects of the rest of the movie. For the next few minutes, there is only music playing. The shots flash back and forth between the main characters, Chris and Rose. When dialogue finally comes in, the two characters talk about their trip to meet Rose’s parents, and Chris voices his fears that the parents do not know that he is black. She reassured him that her parents aren’t racist. On the way to their parents house, they hit a deer head on. This begins the creepy tone of the movie, as Chris goes to check on it. The cop that responds to the scene asks for Chris’ ID, but not Rose’s, which comes off as completely racist. When they get to the house, the parents try way too hard to make Chris comfortable. This, in turn, makes him more uncomfortable than he already was. Chris meets the African American woman that helps around the house (Georgina), and the African American gardener. The father refers to them as  “servants.” Chris becomes uncomfortable and begins to feel like he’s in danger.
      Rose's brother shows up, and Chris starts to seem even more uneasy. At the family dinner, there is more conversation and embarrassing stories told. Georgina becomes more creepy, as she has odd mannerisms. She is almost robotic in her words and movements. This comes into play when rose's mother goes to get dinner, and we see Georgia staring blankly as the mother opens the door to the kitchen. After dinner, Rose and Chris talk about how the family is racist without even knowing it, and Chris doesn’t seem to care too much. However, we can tell he does at least a little bit. Because of this, he has a lot of trouble sleeping. He gets up and goes downstairs in the middle of the night, and Georgia walks by. He goes outside to smoke, and someone starts running towards him at full speed. It is the gardener, and he ends up running directly past him with no reason. Georgina then turns on the light and is standing at the window, and looks at herself in the reflection of the window, scaring Chris even more. Chris runs back inside, but the Mother catches him. She gives him a pep talk about smoking, but it quickly turns into talk about his mother’s death. She is trying to hypnotize him (she’s a psychiatrist) and claims this hypnosis will get him to stop smoking. He hears rain, like the day his mother died. He begins to dig deeper into what happened the day of his mom’s death.
      That is all we got into for today. I suggest watching the first 45 minutes or so of the film. But, if you don’t have the time to, at least you have a summary of what happened!