Review of Get Out (2017) by Injureddriver — 26 Jul 2022

When the film's opening scene, a very on the nose social commentary about how black people are in danger when in *apparently* "white suburbs", was then followed by the opening credit scene with a song featuring lyrics telling the audience to "stay woke", I knew I was about to lose an hour and 40 minutes of my life in the most unpleasant way possible.

Seriously though, I don't think I've ever seen a movie try so hard to lay out it's social commentary in such an explicit and undeniable way so quickly. It's all just surface level racial stereotype type stuff too, just the typical modern leftwing racial tension stoking.

The actual directing and cinematography is not that good either. It honestly feels pretty low budget. Other than the opening "stay woke" song, the rest of the musical soundtrack also had me cringing as it all felt very soap operay at times, especially when layered on top of the poor cinematography.

The whole movie has a "made for TV" feel to it. Most of the acting is mediocre at best, however Daniel Kaluuya did a great job in his role as he always does. That chick from 'Being John Malkovich' did a pretty good job as well.

Unfortunately it's the material these actors were given to work with that is the problem. The writing and dialogue are very poor. This is what happens when a writer's main objective is to force "the message" to the forefront to this extreme a degree, the potential for actual interesting dialogue and story telling gets put on the back burner and ultimately discarded.

As an old school classical Liberal, who wants to strive for a post-racial society, this movie was a chore to sit through. Could be argued this movie is pro-segregation propaganda. The main metaphor is that white people manipulate black people into giving up their "authentic blackness" and conforming to "whiteness" (whatever the hell those two things are).

This movie is a paranoid fever dream for the racially obsessed so-called "anti-racists". I'm sure Robin DiAngelo and Kendi love this movie. They probably watch it on a weekly basis. They may even put it on every night to lullaby themselves to sleep.

I'm assuming all the praise for this movie is for purely ideological reasons coming from people in that "anti-rasict" ideological camp. Very horrible and cringy movie, on multiple levels. I usually try to be pretty objective with my scores and this movie is in all honesty probably a 2 in reality but my classical Liberalism bias is bumping it down to a 1.