Social Issues In Get Out

Get Out is a humorous yet horrifying film which bring out our the deepest fears surrounding current social issues in an in your face way. Don’t let the horror genre fool you, the movie may depict some touchy and uncomfortable social issues but its clever use of humor melts the discomfort and leaves you feeling satisfied. It is a backlash at 21st centuries’ “racism” in its finest form and calls attention to the encrypted forms of prejudice within society expressed through social behaviors. The film is also a newsflash to unbelievers in the existence of racism and explores some deep truth that blacks are just stepping stones.
The film is mainly about this young interracial couple at the “meet the parents” stage of their relationship. Immediately I’m reminded of, “Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner” 1967 where the main characters are also an interacial couple trying to meet each others’ to their parents. Chris the main character is concerned about himself, a black man meeting iss girlfriend’s white parents. Upon meeting Rose’s pleasant and

If racism is a thing of the past would such fears exist? There are fears in the black community unknown to other communities that haunts them, it is like paranoia. Yes we understand that there are different ethnicities and that we are all one people and the color of your skin does not matter but there is always this fear of being vulnerable to an uncomfortable and racist situation especially in a social setting. And there is also this fear of being the only black person in a social gathering. And that even though we acknowledge the injustice of racism we still see it present in society.
Audiences will appreciate this film for its clever rebuke of racism using a combination of horror and humor and also for its ironic twists in the plot. Peele’s use of horror and comedy creates this symbiosis where the lines that differentiates the two