Get Out Scene Analysis

Lawrence King Ayiigah
Prof. Stephanie Dupal
ENG 125
4 October 2017
Plot Response, “Get Out”
Jordan Peele is a renowned American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and director. He is well known for the comedy series Key and Peele. He was born to a black father and a white mother. Peele shows his expertise as a director in the movie “Get Out”. This movie, directed by Peele, was released on February 24, 2017. In this movie, a promising black photographer by name Chris goes with his girlfriend (Rose) to visit her parents. This visit turns out to be unpleasant and horrifying. “Get Out” is a movie heavily packed with symbols of slavery and racism which creates awareness.
The symbols used in this movie have meanings that trace back from the days

of slavery to recent times. The symbols discussed here are The Deer, The Silver Spoon and Tea, The Sunken Place, The Cotton, and The Camera Flash.
The Deer is the first major symbol that shows up in this movie.

The first time a deer shows up is when Chris and Rose run into it on the road. It appears again when Rose’s father talks about his hatred for deer, and shows up again on the wall in the room where Chris was held captive. The Deer represents the black generation. It shows how blacks are brutalized and little attention is given. Most black brutalities happen on the road. Chris’ empathy for the deer is because of how his mother died and he felt guilty for not doing anything about that. Roses father tries to hide his hate for Blacks but his hate for deer speaks volumes. The deer on the wall depicts the black men Rose dated and how they are killed to be used as rewards for whites in the community.
Rose’s mother uses a tea cup and a silver spoon to hypnotize Chris as she gently stirs the tea. The silver spoon represents the privilege of being white and wealthy, blacks are suppressed and made powerless by these attributes. Chris is made to believe the hypnotizing is a treatment for his addiction to smoking, as he is being hypnotized, he floats into the “The Sunken Place” and feels his soul leaving his body. This symbol of white privilege and superiority shows how some bad things done by whites have gone

unnoticed.
Another symbol from this movie is The Camera Flash. The light from the flash depicts awareness. Chris was glad to see some black folks both at Rose’s house and at the gathering but he realized something wasn’t right with them, these blacks where whites inside. They acted like whites and the only times they realized their blackness was at the flash of the camera.
Also, when Chris was captured he used the cotton from the chair he was tied to as an ear plug, this helped him to avoid the sound from the spoon and tea cup. During the era of slavery, slaves worked on cotton plantations. This time it was an escape route for Chris.
“Get Out” shows how everyone has an element of racism within, from our conversations with friends to the posts we make on social media. In the attempt to show disapproval of racism, some underlying signs shows approval. “Get Out” has flashed the light, it is left unto everyone to act accordingly.

Works Cited
Get Out. Jordan Peele. Universal Pictures. 2017. Film
Grant, Jasmine. “We Need to Talk About All of The Symbolism in Get Out.” VH1 News, 3 March 2017, www.vh1.com/303784/get-out-movie-symbolism/. 3 October 2017.