I'm sad to see you and others glorify "Get Out" - a racist insult to every person who by chance was born white. "Get Out" is not a horror movie at all except in its clear depiction of the rapid cultural decay of the American bicoastal elite. "Get Out" is instead a racist fantasy that promotes the tired and endlessly repeated themes…
I'm sad to see you and others glorify "Get Out" - a racist insult to every person who by chance was born white. "Get Out" is not a horror movie at all except in its clear depiction of the rapid cultural decay of the American bicoastal elite. "Get Out" is instead a racist fantasy that promotes the tired and endlessly repeated themes of black victimhood and white supremacy. The silly, racist conspiracy presented in "Get Out" says nothing about white people in America and everything about Jordan Peele and the others who produced it. Peele is even on record (see Hollywood Reporter 3/26/19) saying he will never hire a white man in a lead role. Insert any other ethnicity and he'd have been rightly excoriated as a racist. Neither Jordan Peele nor his racist propaganda should be celebrated.
For me, the irksome thing was that the premise didn't quite hold up. All these aging white men coveting the bodies of young black men. But if virility and athleticism are what you're going for, why only black? What old guy wouldn't want the body of Michael Phelps? Or any other white athlete in his prime? I get the sexual component okay, but like the old blind guy who was going to take his body, all he wanted was to see. So why black? Still, I enjoyed the movie as good entertainment, nothing more. I thought the critics' attempts to make it into some big social statement were a joke.
Because having to stay white people wouldn’t give them the chance to throw around “woke minority” status, I think. With the blind photographer, I figured he came in on the scheme once the practice of picking black people was set. Plus, he wanted Chris’s body in particular because Chris was a talented photographer.
I watched it. Figured it out halfway through, and figured that all the praise was from our virtue signaling critics. I decided to skip all of Peeles ,movies going forward.
That's the vibe I got, so I never saw it. I live in one of the whitest places in the country. We have black people, but they don't get shot by cops, even if they do commit crimes, and as far as I know, they live the same lives day in and day out as we do. We all have much better things to do (like work and live) than harass people who look different than we do. And I suspect nearly 100% of "white America" is just like that. But if it was genuinely a satire of white liberals, like Mara U. says, I might give it a try.
One of my favorite parts is when the white parents are showing the black boyfriend this picture of the dad’s dad (I think), and exclaiming happily about how he tried out for the Olympic track team back in the day, but didn’t get a spot because he was beat by Jesse Owens! The boyfriend is like, “Must have sucked for him to not make the team,” and the parents just kind of blink in confusion at his reaction.
What was really hilarious was all the movie critics at the time piling on the praise for Peele's satirical genius--as if they were not themselves the very same sort of white liberal hypocrites skewered in the movie.
See, I loved "Get Out," both as a horror movie and as a satire of try-hard white liberals. "We think black people are GREAT! We think they're so great, we want to TAKE OVER THEIR BODIES!"
Jordan Peele may very well be racist. Roman Polanski raped a thirteen-year-old girl, and "Rosemary's Baby" is still one of the best horror movies of all time.
exactly. it was a skewering of the noisy "white ally", with more metaphors tucked into it - and yes, inspected some black pain. I also love how he turned over the standard horror trope at the end with the faithful friend who rushes into a bad situation ass first (usually to be killed almost immediately), and instead said "Nope!" lol and drove off.
I'm afraid I have to agree with you on Polanski. It's hard to separate the art from the artist, but that is a perfect film. And he was only like 33 years old when he made it.
I like your take on Get Out. That makes it more interesting to me!
I really hated it when I saw it, thought it was kind of a hacky remake of Stepford Wives, but instead of women it's black people being terrorized / replaced. The fact that serious reviewers didn't even mention the Stepford parallels was very surprising to me.
Bari,
I'm sad to see you and others glorify "Get Out" - a racist insult to every person who by chance was born white. "Get Out" is not a horror movie at all except in its clear depiction of the rapid cultural decay of the American bicoastal elite. "Get Out" is instead a racist fantasy that promotes the tired and endlessly repeated themes of black victimhood and white supremacy. The silly, racist conspiracy presented in "Get Out" says nothing about white people in America and everything about Jordan Peele and the others who produced it. Peele is even on record (see Hollywood Reporter 3/26/19) saying he will never hire a white man in a lead role. Insert any other ethnicity and he'd have been rightly excoriated as a racist. Neither Jordan Peele nor his racist propaganda should be celebrated.
For me, the irksome thing was that the premise didn't quite hold up. All these aging white men coveting the bodies of young black men. But if virility and athleticism are what you're going for, why only black? What old guy wouldn't want the body of Michael Phelps? Or any other white athlete in his prime? I get the sexual component okay, but like the old blind guy who was going to take his body, all he wanted was to see. So why black? Still, I enjoyed the movie as good entertainment, nothing more. I thought the critics' attempts to make it into some big social statement were a joke.
Because having to stay white people wouldn’t give them the chance to throw around “woke minority” status, I think. With the blind photographer, I figured he came in on the scheme once the practice of picking black people was set. Plus, he wanted Chris’s body in particular because Chris was a talented photographer.
Oh right, I forgot about the photographer part. That would make sense.
I watched it. Figured it out halfway through, and figured that all the praise was from our virtue signaling critics. I decided to skip all of Peeles ,movies going forward.
That's the vibe I got, so I never saw it. I live in one of the whitest places in the country. We have black people, but they don't get shot by cops, even if they do commit crimes, and as far as I know, they live the same lives day in and day out as we do. We all have much better things to do (like work and live) than harass people who look different than we do. And I suspect nearly 100% of "white America" is just like that. But if it was genuinely a satire of white liberals, like Mara U. says, I might give it a try.
One of my favorite parts is when the white parents are showing the black boyfriend this picture of the dad’s dad (I think), and exclaiming happily about how he tried out for the Olympic track team back in the day, but didn’t get a spot because he was beat by Jesse Owens! The boyfriend is like, “Must have sucked for him to not make the team,” and the parents just kind of blink in confusion at his reaction.
What was really hilarious was all the movie critics at the time piling on the praise for Peele's satirical genius--as if they were not themselves the very same sort of white liberal hypocrites skewered in the movie.
See, I loved "Get Out," both as a horror movie and as a satire of try-hard white liberals. "We think black people are GREAT! We think they're so great, we want to TAKE OVER THEIR BODIES!"
Jordan Peele may very well be racist. Roman Polanski raped a thirteen-year-old girl, and "Rosemary's Baby" is still one of the best horror movies of all time.
exactly. it was a skewering of the noisy "white ally", with more metaphors tucked into it - and yes, inspected some black pain. I also love how he turned over the standard horror trope at the end with the faithful friend who rushes into a bad situation ass first (usually to be killed almost immediately), and instead said "Nope!" lol and drove off.
Another bizarre and frightening Roman Polanski movie was "The Tenant".
I'm afraid I have to agree with you on Polanski. It's hard to separate the art from the artist, but that is a perfect film. And he was only like 33 years old when he made it.
I like your take on Get Out. That makes it more interesting to me!
I really hated it when I saw it, thought it was kind of a hacky remake of Stepford Wives, but instead of women it's black people being terrorized / replaced. The fact that serious reviewers didn't even mention the Stepford parallels was very surprising to me.