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Themes and interpretations

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Get Out has been described as critical of post-racial America, the concept of "colorblindness", and Neoliberalism.[1][2][3]

Lanre Bakare in The Guardian notes, "The villains here aren't southern rednecks or neo-Nazi skinheads, or the so-called 'alt-right'. They're middle-class white liberals. [...] The thing Get Out does so well—and the thing that will rankle with some viewers—is to show how, however unintentionally, these same people can make life so hard and uncomfortable for black people. It exposes a liberal ignorance and hubris that has been allowed to fester. It's an attitude, an arrogance which in the film leads to a horrific final solution, but in reality leads to a complacency that is just as dangerous."[4]

Peele stated that the character of Hudson, who "is the farthest from racist" due to his blindness, "still plays a part in the system of racism", due to his belief that the eyesight of a black photographer will give him an "advantage".[5] Hudson distances himself from the racial context of taking Chris' body, claiming to be only interested in his eyesight and reducing him to an aesthetic.[6][7]

Scholar Thai-Catherine Matthews draws parallels between Chris and Barack Obama, noting their "suspension" between racial and social identities. Matthews says Obama comes to the conclusion that this "suspension" can foster positive relations in his memoir Dreams from My Father, while Get Out "views suspension as the ultimate hell".[8] Ryan Poll cited the film as an example of Afro-pessimism.[7]

Before v After.

  1. ^ Train, Emma (2 October 2021). "What is not real can be felt into being: affective threat in Jordan Peele's Get Out". New Review of Film and Television Studies. 19 (4): 439–461. doi:10.1080/17400309.2021.1919481. ISSN 1740-0309. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
  2. ^ Landsberg, Alison (3 September 2018). "Horror vérité: politics and history in Jordan Peele's Get Out (2017)". Continuum. 32 (5): 629–642. doi:10.1080/10304312.2018.1500522. ISSN 1030-4312. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
  3. ^ Patton, Elizabeth A. (3 July 2019). "Get Out and the legacy of sundown suburbs in post-racial America". New Review of Film and Television Studies. 17 (3): 349–363. doi:10.1080/17400309.2019.1622889. ISSN 1740-0309. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
  4. ^ Bakare, Lanre (February 28, 2017). "Get Out: the film that dares to reveal the horror of liberal racism in America". The Guardian. Retrieved April 28, 2023.
  5. ^ Hiatt, Brian (January 29, 2019). "The All-American Nightmares of Jordan Peele". Rolling Stone. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
  6. ^ Jarvis, Michael (2018). "Anger translator: Jordan Peele's Get Out". Science Fiction Film and Television. 11 (1): 97–109. ISSN 1754-3789. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
  7. ^ a b Poll, Ryan (2018). "Can One "Get Out?" The Aesthetics of Afro-Pessimism". The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association. 51 (2): 69–102. ISSN 0742-5562. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
  8. ^ Matthews, Thai-Catherine (2022). "Screaming with Laughter: How Jordan Peele's Get Out Rereads Obama by Rewriting the Black Messiah". Black Camera. 13 (2): 139–161. ISSN 1947-4237. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
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