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MYSTERY/THRILLER<br />
GET OUT<br />
Initial release: February 24, 2017 (Canada)<br />
Director: Jordan Peele<br />
Screenplay: Jordan Peele<br />
SYNOPSIS<br />
Now that Chris (Daniel<br />
Kaluuya) and his girlfriend,<br />
Rose (Allison Williams), have<br />
reached the meet-the-parents<br />
milestone of dating, she<br />
invites him for a weekend<br />
getaway upstate with Missy<br />
and Dean. At first, Chris<br />
reads the family's overly<br />
accommodating behavior as<br />
nervous attempts to deal with<br />
their daughter's interracial<br />
relationship, but as the<br />
weekend progresses, a series<br />
of increasingly disturbing<br />
discoveries lead him to a<br />
truth that he never could<br />
have imagined.<br />
REVIEW<br />
“Get Out” opens with a fantastic tone-setter. A young man (the great Keith<br />
Stanfield, in two other movies at this year’s Sundance and fantastic on FX’s<br />
“Atlanta”) is walking down a suburban street, joking with someone on the phone<br />
about how he always gets lost because all the streets sound the same. A car passes<br />
him, turns around, and slowly starts following him. It’s an otherwise empty street, so<br />
the guy knows something is wrong. Suddenly, and perfectly staged in terms of<br />
Peele’s direction, the intensity of the situation is amplified and we are thrust into a<br />
world in which the safe-looking suburbs are anything but.<br />
Cut to our protagonists, Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) and his girlfriend Rose (Allison<br />
Williams of “Girls”), preparing to go home to meet her parents. Rose hasn’t told them<br />
he’s black, which she blows off as no big deal, but he’s wary. His TSA Agent buddy (a<br />
hysterical LilRel Howery) warns him against going too, but Chris is falling in love<br />
with Rose. He’ll have to meet them eventually. And Rose swears her dad would have<br />
voted for Obama a third time if he could have.<br />
The final act of “Get Out” is an unpredictable thrill ride. As a writer, Peele doesn’t<br />
quite bring all of his elements together in the climax in the way I wish he would, but<br />
he proves to be a strong visual artist as a director, finding unique ways to tell a story<br />
that goes increasingly off the rails. The insanity of the final act allows some of the<br />
satirical, racially-charged issues to drop away, which is slightly disappointing.
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