Today in film as lit class it was the day we began watching Get Out. If you weren't here for it then that really stinks for you. Just kidding I will give a nice summary of what you missed that is probably even better than the actual movie.
Before we began watching the film Mr. Rivers gave us an assignment for our three days of watching. The assignment is for each day of film to compose a sentence or two connecting the film and the microaggressions article using one of the academic lens we went over in class yesterday. This lens can be different each day or the same, it is your choice but make sure to put the lens in parenthesis for each synthesis. Basically answer the question: how is the film in conversation with the article? This assignment is due Monday.
Day 1 Get Out Summary:
The film begins with a young African-American man who gets choked out and kidnapped as he walks through a neighborhood at night. Then the film shift gears to another young African-American named Chris and his girlfriend Rose. Rose wants Chris to meet her family and Chris fears that the family may be racist towards him even though Rose assures him they won't be. On the way there Rose hits a deer as she is driving and they call the cops to report the accident. The cop asks for Chris's ID even though he wasn't driving and insists he needs to see it even though Rose refuses to let him show the ID because he doesn't need to. It is clear in this scene that the cop is racist. When Chris and Rose get to the family's house Chris immediately realizes that all the servants are African-Americans which makes him nervous. Chris is introduced to the parents and there is a sense of tension between him and the parents. Throughout his first day at the family's house Chris is showed around the house and notices more and more things that seem fishy such as the behaviors of the African-American servants and Rose's parents towards him. Chris also meets Jeremy who also acts weird towards him as well at dinner. Jeremy makes comments about how Chris could be an all-star athlete with his "genetic make-up" and also tries to demonstrate a headlock on him. When Chris and Rose go up to the room at night, Rose apologizes for her family's behavior as her and Chris realize how racist they were acting towards him. After they fall asleep, Chris gets up in the middle of the night to smoke outside and notices one of the servants who strangely runs past him and a women servant who oddly stares out the window as she fixes up her hair. As Chris goes back inside Rose's mom sits in the living room waiting for him. She makes him sit down and explains how smoking is a poor habit and then goes on to ask question about his family's life. While Chris is hesitant at first, he then explains how his father wasn't in the picture and goes into detail about his mother's death. Rose's mother has Chris hypnotized and Chris begins to freak out as he can't move and feels like he is floating downwards.
This is the point we had to stop watching at before the class ended, but we will pick back up again
tomorrow.
Other Reminders: Our Senior Paper Proposal for growing our seeds of synthesis is due Tuesday so don't be like me and wait until the last minute to do it.
I hope my blog post helped catch you up on what you may have missed. Make sure to be in class tomorrow so you don't miss even more!!
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