Racism In The Film 'Get Out'

GET OUT

A story about going on racism.

When we see around us we see that we all are in the most advanced and technical world. We are in the 21st century where we consider ourselves the most modest and civilized people. But, I think the more we are modernized and enlightened, the more we are becoming narrow minded about race. According to me, in today’s world race is not only about color now, it is more about the upper class and lower class. We human beings are known as the most smartest of all the organisms, but our smartness is leading us to create and build differences between our own human race. Other animals and organisms with whom we share this planet and the ones from whom the species human came, never show these attitudes towards their other members. Firstly, in this

world human started discriminating lower groups who were poor or belonged to lower or inferior groups; then they started a new trend in which males considered themselves superior over females; and now the time where black colored skin is discriminated by the white skin humans. We all say that we are changed, there is a change in our minds, we don’t discriminate now.

But, still every morning we see or hear to some news saying that a black is killed or a white shot a brown man and said that ‘get out of my country’. These lines then really hurts, but, what we do, when we hear this; nothing. We can only debate or think but are unable to bring a big change. Similarly, an effort done by Jordan Peele is appreciable. He made a really good movie named as “Get Out” which revolves around experiences faced by black people. Following thesis will throw light on some of the aspects seen in the movie “Get Out”.

In this movie, a white girl named Rose has a black boyfriend named Chris. She wants Chris to meet her parents and she convinced him to do so. On the way home, their car hits a animal (that was a dear), Rose was driving the car, but when police arrived and started the investigation they asked Rose to show her ID which is correct as she was driving, but it surprised to see that people till now see black as minority, when the police asked Chris to show his ID to them whereas usually they don’t, which proves the level of discrimination in the law and democratic nation. Then after this, when they reached home

Rose’s father asked him weared question, which seems like it hurt him. Then after some talks Rose’s father started showing Chris their house, where he sees black people as servants, he was surprised and hurt when Rose’s father said “white family; black servants”. Later on in the movie, he experiences various lows. Then, at the annual get-together, various whites take an unusual interest in Chris and in his physical capabilities and one of the guests as that being black is in-style. All these lines may be seen as the writer of the movie is expressing more than it may exist, but may be at same time he is right too. May the African Americans face all these situations or may face worse than these. Further in the movie, Chris calls his friend Rod Williams and tells him about how he was hypnotized and the kind of unusual behaviour of local black people. And so Rob told him that may be the black were hypnotized to work as slaves and serve white. Rod Williams is shocked when, he sees picture of Andre Hayworth, whom Chris is introduced as Logan a black person in the annual get-together. Then when Chris convinces Rose to immediately move out of there. But, a shocking twist comes when Chris sees all the pictures of Rose with all the black people whom he met. All the black people who were servants or slaves of whites named in the movie as, Walter and Georgina. Then again, he is hypnotised by Rose’s mother Missy as when Chris tries to leave the home. Then, at the last he comes up with the whole story. Dean, Rose’s dad who is neurosurgeon, performs brain surgery, of transplanting the consciousnesses of whites into bodies of younger blacks, who are hypnotized by Missy, Rose’s mother. But luckily, Rod Williams saves his friend from this terrifying situation.

This movie was scary, I watched this couple hours movie within 2 days, but depicts a real and true picture of racism. H.G. Wells, an english writer has rightly said that “ our nationality is mankind.” In making this comment, H.G. Wells urges that we all humans belong to same race, there is no difference between us. Only the difference of color, castes, nationality, religion, sex, age, being transsxual, or national origin does not decide what we are or what kind of personality we exhibit. I studied about racism in my American Politics class and remembered one of the line of Martin Luther King, where is said that it's his dream to live in a nation where “his children will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character”. If we all respect him and many other personalities who have spoken so much in the favor of black people, then we all should treat them as the same as we treat white people. The upshot of all this is that we all must give them same respect, same amount of wages, equal rights, and equal protection rights to every race and every human.