Jordan Peele’s Get Out is a story about our main character, Chris, visiting his white girlfriend, Rose, in a family household. Though things initially appear normal, unbeknownst to Chris is the family's obsession with black bodies and the disturbing tradition of transferring white people into black bodies to inhabit them. Through Chris, Jordan Peele’s Get Out highlights how psychological trauma from childhood manifests itself in the actions of the individual, shaping their beliefs and motivating them to. At the beginning of the movie, as Chris and Rose are on their way to the Armitage family, a deer suddenly appears in front of the car and gets hit. Chris immediately gets out of the car to go check on it. The deer is symbolic of Chris’s mother …show more content…
Chris fits this archetype very well. The Armitage family’s control over the bodies of black people is indicative of the oppression black people face in the real world. They fixate on the biology of black bodies, negating the difficulties they face societally. Chris tackles this dehumanization of black people by killing all members of the Armitage family after being cornered. Their systematic luring of the prey, then trapping them, and finally surgically swapping them with white bodies made it nearly impossible to escape, but Chris was able to do it. His heroism is largely evident in the undeleted ending scene of the movie, where instead of his friend, Roy, saving him at the end, the police arrest him, believing him to be a murderer. In this scene, his friend asks him to tell him “the story” again. However, he instead insisted that he had stopped the family and that everything was okay. This demonstrates that even though justice wasn’t served in the end since he went to jail, he’s content with the fact that he stopped the Armitage family’s exploitation of black