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Taruna answered on Apr 18 2021
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Projection of Racial Discrimination Through the Genre of Horror in Get Out by Peele
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Introduction
The racial conflicts remain undercurrent of the social values; they do not wander the surface of social spheres but practices of people at times force others to think that racial discriminations do exists in spite of all the advocacies done against them. Peele’s attempt to present this racial horror in the film Get Out is noticeable in this context. In fact Peele has attempted to showcase that Black community is sometimes marginalized (Hughes, 2018). The emphasis is given over the association of color identity with horrific conclusions in life for blacks. No matter how approachable they would be, whites still control and monitor the racial system in societies across nation or at least, it is rooted in their minds that they are born to govern and not to ‘adjust’ with black people (Lewis 2019).
In a tweet published after the release of the film, he metaphorically used the term ‘sunken place as something that shows how black people lead marginalized life and it does not matter how hard they scream against the injustice done to them; it is the whole system that is flawed and it always works to silence their voices (Lewis 2019). Get Out is the clear reflection of dominant whiteness over the blackish shades of appearance. It is the primary color that signifies one race is superior to all. In a fictional world where characters like Chris and Rose are portrayed, it is always imaginable that biases do exist in the social system and they can go beyond any limit of people understanding them.
The Background of the Issue Presented: Snippet of the Plot
Before dealing with the main aspects of how racial discrimination is highlighted in the movie, it is important to overview the plot briefly. Chris Washington, the protagonist of the movie feels a little embarrassed when he is preparing to meet with his girlfriend’s family, the family of Rose. The three members of the family are introduced as Jeremy, her brother, Dean, her father and Missy as her mother. Two more characters are seen in the house that belongs to Chris’ community, Georgina and Walter and they both possesses grey shades of personality (Kevin, 2017).
At first place, everything seems fine with Chris as he goes up to meeting quite in a formal manner. However, problems begin to surge from the moment of discovering that Missy is a hypnotherapist and she can lead Chris to a ‘sunken place’, a subconscious level of mind form where, Chris would remain in control with her commands. The ominous happenings, statements occurring through the mouths of some of the renowned persons gathered in the party thrown by the Dean’s family as well as the mysterious behavior of Georgina and Walter make Chris inquisitive in nature to know more about the Dean, Rose and rest of the housemates he is living with. This is the crucial phase of the plot where viewers are interacted to the ‘sunken place’ in the episode of Christ being ‘manipulated’ by Missy in the name of hypnotherapy given to control Chris’ addiction of cigarettes (Kevin, 2017).
Though session goes well, the tinges of unusual events incur the meaning that something wrong has been done so far; it can be seen in the face of Missy who rigorously tells Chris that he will be improved by her therapy. The sp called ‘accidental’ unplugging of Chris’s phone by Georgina also creates suspense in this episode. It is more like the fact that Chris is now trapped into some unwanted situation from where, it is necessary for the conspirators to cut his connection from the rest of the world (Kevin, 2017).
In the middle of the story, some more characters are introduced like Hudson, an art dealer who is blind and Logan, a person who is incorrectly identified at the start but soon he is recognized as some fugitive, a missing man who was involved in a conspiracy in the past. Most importantly, on the surface, Chris is admired in the party for having exceptional photography skills. However, the behavior of Logan, the forcing of Missy and Dean to Chris to remain at home for a longer time adds only to the doubt in Chris’s mind who decides to leave the house and convinces Rose to accompany him. But he fails to do that and is actually found in a drastic situation (Jarvis, 2018).
In the last part of the plot, horrific events dominate; Chris discovers the terrifying intentions of Dean Family to use black people as bombs. The hypnotherapy is merely a tool that they use against the whole community. Except Chris and Rose, every other character in the story meets with an untimely and miserable death. There is a void which leaves the ending of the story abrupt, a flux that is unintelligible but procrastinated by Peele (Jarvis, 2018).
Peele is of the view that the world stands on two opposite ends out of which, the end belonging to the black...