Racism In Get Out By Jordan Peele

In the groundbreaking 2017 film “Get Out”, director Jordan Peele dives into a thrilling yet comedic narrative of a young Black man, Chris Washington, meeting his white girlfriend Rose Armitage’s family for the first time. As he navigates the family’s grand country house in upstate New York, he is confronted with an unsettling family history leading to an unforeseen fate. The story exhibits many unexpected twists and turns to make it a truly captivating movie. It demonstrates modern-day racism in a clever and ingenious way as it challenges perceptions of racism in America. This movie is unique in its representation of racism as it illuminates racism not in overt means, like racial slurs, but in the subtle microaggressions that Black people go

The actors’ performance displayed the conflict within themselves between their own drowning souls and the white soul that has taken over their bodies in an astonishing way. They truly nailed it from their indifferent facial expressions, chilling smiles, and their overall eerie persona. As the Black maid, Georgina comes to apologize to Chris for unplugging his phone, Chris expresses how “if there is too many white people” he gets nervous and says it to her in a familiar way, assuming she would relate as a Black woman in this majority white town. Her reaction is what really made this scene iconic as her face displays a minute instance of worry and fear, displaying the inner soul’s emotion, but then is instantly washed over with a burst of hysterical laughter as tears fall down her face. The actress who played Georgina, Betty Gabriel, truly encapsulated the character’s distress of being stuck behind the white’s soul. This symbolism Jordan Peele has created helps convey the exploitation white people inflict on Black people in modern-day America in a very unique way. To add, the way the Black souls within have almost accepted defeat and continue to suffer as they know it is helpless to fight back symbolizes modern-day America where Black people still suffer through many microaggressions from day to day and have almost accepted that is the fate of

I believe Jordan Peele’s intention for this movie was to portray modern-day racism, not of the overt kind, but of the microaggressions. Jordan Peele makes this movie unlike any other as he takes it in a satirical, comedic route, rather than the typical sole serious, thriller route movies that are normally used to address this subject. This provides a refreshing view of horror movies as it brings a very unique perspective on not only the subject but on how horror movies normally are. Most horror movies consist of possessed beings, paranormal activities, or chilling zombies, having not much to them besides their element of scariness. Jordan Peele utilizes a satirical view as he sprinkles in comedy and irony throughout the movie, while still not taking away from the message. To start, Peele truly displays the lengths white people go to display they are not racist as they simultaneously conduct microaggressions. Jordan Peele uses a satirical and comedic way to display this at the party at the Armitage’s home as the white guests cannot stop commenting to Chris about his skin color including saying, “Black is in fashion” and publicly singling him out by asking if he “saw being African-American has an advantage or disadvantage in the modern world?”. In their process of attempting to make him feel “included”, they seem to only be singling him out. Jordan Peele uses a satire