Review of Get Out (2017) by Doug M — 08 Nov 2017

Interesting 99% score from the critics. So easy to agree it's worth seeing. I'm fascinated by the 10% of audience that didn't like this movie -- they hate it! They give it 1 star! And commence to explain how everyone is wrong! I love that.

.. Here's my theory.... There are movie goers out there who just have no taste for cheeseyness. It's not that they don't get irony. It's not that don't get kitsch as something to laugh _at_.

... but it's that they don't get _really_ genuinely liking kitsch... where say, I have a collection of Pez dispensers because I actually love them, sentimentally, not because they are silly and ironic trash, though they surely are silly trash, no despite that.

... childhood lives there in the cheapness and I connect to it. Some folks can appreciate a parody of a genre, but not a knowing celebration/embrace of the genre. Get Out isn't a parody of B horror, not even a satire of B horror.

.. it's a lovingly made actual B horror film with a biting, beautifully nuanced, both very broad and very subtle social satire on race fully and in my opinion 100% satisfactorily woven into the B movie.

As a result, if you really genuinely have no affection for B movies Get Out doesn't work. Real masterpieces aren't made out of cheap materials in my opinion and Get Out isn't deathless art, (how many movies are? a dozen? two dozen? three? mostly European and Japanese, too) but it succeeds brilliantly at what it sets out to be: funny, horrifying (the harmless kind), satirical and thought-provoking about race relations, and it accomplishes it all without seeming to try very hard.