Get Out: Movie Review
Am I the only one who didn’t like the movie “Get Out”? I just watched it (yes, I know I’m late) But, to me it just fetl... I don’t know, unsatisfying?
1. The movie just tried to hard. I get it that it was a race-based movie but, it seems to bash you over the head with it. In the beginning, the guy asks his girlfriend “are your parents racist?” It strikes me as odd because, if you’ve been dating for 4-5 months and have been planning a trip to go visit someone’s parents, don’t you think that conversation would’ve come up already? It seems like it’s only there to set the race bait-y tone. Then the way the people at the part acted, it was so blatantly racist. It felt cartoonish, it was way too in your face. There was also the friend constantly spouting about racist white people, the dad going on and on about race, it was too much. I get it. The movie is about race. Shut up.
2. You can predict the entire plot within the first 10 minutes of the movie. The moment the mother taps on her glass and causes the servant to go into a flashback, it was obvious what the movie had in store, too obvious. The movie’s whole thing is “twists and turns” when in reality, there were none. Oh, the family is selling black people as slaves? Wow, couldn’t see that coming. The girlfriend is in on it too? How surprising. The art dealer wants the main characters eyes? So shocking. Come on, the only true twist the movie had was the ending. (And it wasn’t too unexpected, just a slight upbeat moment)
3. The movie ran itself into a circle. Ok, so are they using hypnotism? Or transmutation? Or both? If not, then how do all of the characters have triggers? All of that aside, if the grandmother and grandfather’s minds have been placed in the minds of the servants, why do they have triggers? And why are they, servants? If it was so hard to let them go, you wouldn’t use them as servants. And why would the grandfather, the mastermind of all of this take any of that servant bull crap? He was a genius! He found a way to keep people permanently subdued! Why would someone like that happily live out their life as a servant? And if it isn’t transmutation, just hypnosis, then why does the girlfriend call him grandpa? Does the scene with the grandpa spouting about his accomplishments mean nothing? And the hatred of the servant and the wife? The grandmother hates her daughter-in-law who helped to keep her alive? It makes no sense.
4. The hypnotism is pointless if they have transmutation. You learned how to place a completely different personality in someone else’s mind! Why do you need to hypnotize them? Just bring them to the house, drug them, sell them, alter their brain. That literally saves them DAYS. They’re jumping through hundreds of hoops just to seem creepy. It’s pointless and makes the plot more complicated.
5. They’ve got hypnotism all wrong. I get it, it’s a movie, it’s not meant to be factual. But, really, do any kind of research on hypnotism and you’ll see that someone unwilling to be hypnotized, can’t be hypnotized. It just won’t work. When the main character was in a panic, down in that prep room, there’s no way he could’ve been placed under hypnosis. He was in full panic, his sympathetic system was on overdrive. His body was in full fight or flight. Unless the body is shown that the danger is gone, there’s no way a simple tap on a teacup could completely override that. Going back to my old point, the dad is a neurosurgeon, he should know something about anesthetics, just drug him and get it over with.
So all in all, the movie was okay. I liked the action scenes and the funny best friend but, besides that, the movie was all over the place and felt kinda rushed. I’d give it a 5/10, since the idea behind it was good and it had it’s moments.