{"id":26129,"date":"2017-04-17T22:39:56","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T21:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ps4pro.eu\/?p=26129"},"modified":"2017-04-19T00:32:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T23:32:42","slug":"get-out-a-black-mans-grand-guignolesque-survivor-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeek.games\/2017\/04\/17\/get-out-a-black-mans-grand-guignolesque-survivor-horror\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Out \u2013 A Black Man\u2019s Grand Guignolesque Survivor Horror"},"content":{"rendered":"

MOVIE REVIEW \u2013 Jordan Peele\u2019s latest movie is part horror, part comedy in a surprisingly refreshing way. While they seem to be contradictory, those two genres have a lot in common, in particular with their reliance\u00a0on timing to evoke a physical response. A pause can either extend the tension or make a simple sentence even funnier. Rhythm lets the audience know what to expect \u2014 or throws them off intentionally, creating an even bigger reaction.<\/h4>\n

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From its very first moments, \u201cGet Out\u201d puts viewers in a strange mood – inducing a state of discomfort and also utter hilarity that doesn\u2019t let up until its go-for-broke final act. The crafty, sure-footed directorial debut of Jordan Peele<\/strong><\/em><\/a> – one-half of the brilliant comic duo Key and Peele \u2014 this horror film has roots as firmly planted in the works of Jonathan Swift as John Carpenter, intertwining acidic social satire between the jump scares.<\/p>\n

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Meet the parents<\/h3>\n

In \u201cGet Out,\u201d\u00a0Daniel Kaluuya<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0plays Chris, a 26-year-old black man who is uncomfortable about traveling to meet the parents of his white girlfriend, Rose (Allison Williams<\/strong><\/em><\/a>). She assures him that he has nothing to worry about: \u201cThey are not racist. I would have told you.\u201d However, from the moment Rose\u2019s dad (Bradley Whitford<\/strong><\/a><\/em>) greets him with a \u201cMy man,\u201d Chris feels uneasy in the remote house. The presence of the eerily obedient black maid (Betty Gabriel<\/strong><\/a><\/em>) and groundskeeper (Marcus Henderson<\/strong><\/a><\/em>) doesn\u2019t make him feel better.<\/p>\n

Rose\u2019s psychiatrist mother (Catherine Keener<\/strong><\/a><\/em>) seems friendly, but she may have hypnotized him without his permission. Each interaction escalates his discomfort, culminating in the world\u2019s most awkward party with the family\u2019s all-white group of friends and a lone black man (Lakeith Stanfield<\/strong><\/em><\/a>) who is acting strangely. Calls home to his best friend (LilRel Howery<\/strong><\/em><\/a>) only elevate his suspicions, but is Chris paranoid or is there danger lurking for him\u00a0on the grounds of the isolated, seemingly perfect home?<\/p>\n

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Grand Guignol is strong in this one<\/h3>\n

In the opening moments of\u00a0Get Out<\/em><\/strong>, as a mysterious, threatening figure in a white car stalks a wary black man who\u2019s lost his way in a suburban neighborhood at night. Peele lets the scene play out like a familiar horror movie sequence, complete with stabbing musical jump-cues, canny tension-building camera movement, and sudden, shocking action.<\/p>\n

In \u201cGet Out,\u201d an exhilaratingly smart and scary horror about a black man in a white nightmare, the laughs come easily and then go in for the kill. The writer and director, Jordan Peele (of the comedy sketch show \u201cKey & Peele\u201d), understands how to make shadowy streets into menacing ones and turn silences into warnings from the abyss.<\/p>\n

His greatest achievement in \u201cGet Out,\u201d though, is to have hitched these genre elements to an evil that isn\u2019t obscured by a hockey mask, but instead, throws open its arms with a warm smile while enthusiastically (and strangely) expressing its love for President Obama.<\/p>\n

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Top notch tension<\/h3>\n

From the start, Peele uses racial tension to crank up the narrative tension. When Chris\u2019 white girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams) invites him to meet her parents at their beautifully appointed, isolated lake house in a rich suburb, he hedges. She hasn\u2019t told her parents he\u2019s black, and he anticipates a potentially uncomfortable scene. But her folks, Dean (Bradley Whitford) and Missy (Catherine Keener), are welcoming and friendly. Dean is an awkwardly forceful would-be liberal ally \u2014 among other things, he claims he wanted to vote for Obama for a third term, and brags about what an honor it was when his father lost a potential Olympic competition slot to Jesse Owens. But otherwise, the entire Armitage family seems genuine enough.<\/p>\n