Get Out African American Peele

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The film Get Out follows an African American protagonist, Chris, as he visits suburbia to meet his White girlfriends', Rose Armitage, and family, which leads to his psychological and physical captivity and isolation. The Armitages are a family that epitomizes white supremacy and systemic oppression in modern America by ostensibly acting as the progressive and accepting family, which in reality is a plot to isolate, brainwash, and sell Chris. They use psychological and invasive physical methods and procedures to control and manipulate Black people to commodify for their personal use and profit as a means of neo-slavery, deemed the Coagula method to revive deceased white people through black bodies. The film Get Out by Jordan Peele criticizes …show more content…

While the idea of a bingo game is outwardly innocent and a casual pastime, beneath is an auction for Chris, juxtaposing with a historical slave auction (Peele 1581). Thus, the superficial guise of bingo underlines the guise of progress and innocence that systemic oppression and racism occur under in modern-day society. Moreover, Chris is repeatedly fetishized, dehumanized, and objectified, reduced to his desirable physical characteristics as "black is in fashion" (Peele 1285). People desiring him and viewing him as a trophy or prized possession for physical traits and talents reflect the fetishization of black people as entertainment or property, which perpetuates stereotypes. Likewise, Chris encounters microaggressions and racial stereotypes in the form of ignorant and well-meaning comments about his "frame and [his] genetic make-up" (Peele 889). Chris' identity being commodified and diminished into an object for entertainment reflects tokenism and marginalization of Black people in society. Missy Armitage uses hypnosis to subdue and manipulate Chris through the use of clinking a teacup and a silver spoon (Peele

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