Stereotypes In Get Out

Only a handful of films directed by black people have been extremely successful throughout the entertainment industry but Jordan Peele’s horror flick, “Get Out,” grossed 96 million dollars in the box office, ranking number one in the country. It centers around Chris Washington, a black man who finds himself in a terrible dilemma while accompanying his white girlfriend Rose Armitage to her family’s home. The director puts an emphasis on Rose’s parents and the other white people in the film, by displaying their uneasy behavior towards her daughters black boyfriend. He also focuses on Chris’s reactions to the white people’s behavior, in order to address the fact that we are not in a post racial world and tapping into the fears of young black men

in society never quite fitting in.
Peele purposely uses the characters interactions with Chris to portray racist behaviors attempts to be aggressively unscary but is just as horrifying.

The first instance in the film that this happen is when Chris walks into the Rose’s home and he is immediately welcomed by her parents with open arms. In attempt to make Chris comfortable Roses parents are extremely nice to him, as seen in Dean’s pointedly zealous comments about the achievements of Olympian Jesse Owens and loving Obama. These comments are what make Chris uncomfortable because if he wasn’t black the comments wouldn’t have been said. Clearly, by expressing these comments to Chris they unconsciously isolate him. What Peele is trying to achieve in this scene is capture what white people do our world today. It's clear that Peele’s intended audience is white people that belong to this subculture and black men in America that can relate. Peele for one, wants this specific group of white people to understand that by attempting to not sound or look racist is what isolates black men in our society. The problem here is that white people feel the need to aggressively prove they aren’t racist and in doing so are identifying them as black people; thinking of them differently because of the color of their skin. It’s important to note that this film takes place in a typical democratic state to prove racial tension isn’t just present in the Southern states. Viewers overall, see that through the use of the characters underlines the unintended violence towards black people that is still present in the white

community.
Peele addresses how in society today black people are seen as objects. An instance of this type of violence in the film is at the family party in which all the white people, are nice to Chris and talk about him in ways that make it clear he’s not like them — whether it’s about his “genetic makeup” and “frame.” People start touching Chris and ask Rose if the sex is good as if he was an object. These oblivious white people are trying too hard to be cool in front of Chris, whom they just sort of think must be cool because he is black. They treat Chris as is he is something to be observed. Here the experience of being observed matters and the manner in which one is observed and how it becomes the object of desire — a sort of fetish object. This is at the center of Get Out, even though it doesn’t call attention to the idea specifically. People want to relate to him because of the historical. It isn't set in a specific location to prove that racial tension isn’t just present in the Southern states as many people believe it to be.
Black people have a voice.