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White people be crazy, am I right?
Jordan Peele makes his directorial debut with this horror thriller. With Get Out, Peele takes his creative use of comedic timing and transfers that to horror. Both genres are all about timing, one tries to make you laugh, the other tries to make you scared. Get Out excels at both and I'd love to see what Peele does with the genre, should he stick to it.
Chris and Rose are going up to her parents place for the weekend. He's concerned that they are white privilege and he's just some black guy dating their daughter. She assures him that they are not racist and totally down to earth. When they arrive, something seems off. Dean, her father, tries to act cool and hip while her mother wants to hypnotize Chris into quitting smoking, a disgusting habit she hates. The only other two black people around are servants and don't seem all quite right.
This Guess Who's Coming To Dinner update spins the narrative around and takes the viewer on a wild ride where race is a comically and terrifying issue front and centre. Peele manages to craft a tight thriller where every little thing you hear characters say, might have different meanings later on. It's tightly written and well directed, it's no surprise this film is scoring high on rottentomatoes.
The cast works well together, blending casual terror into their performances. Whitford and Keener are the parents and if the film had one weak spot, I'd have to say it belongs to Keener. She seems uninterested in the role or maybe just bored. Whitford on the other hand seems to be having a lot of fun. The satire in the script is brought alive on screen from the cast.
You'll question what's really going on here and Peele reveals just enough at the right times. He manages to blend Night of the Living Dead, The Stepford Wives and numerous other films extremely well together. The explosive third act is tense and I wasn't ever really sure how it was going to end. Which is a rarity in films these days
Get Out
(Jordan Peele)
(Jordan Peele)
White people be crazy, am I right?
Jordan Peele makes his directorial debut with this horror thriller. With Get Out, Peele takes his creative use of comedic timing and transfers that to horror. Both genres are all about timing, one tries to make you laugh, the other tries to make you scared. Get Out excels at both and I'd love to see what Peele does with the genre, should he stick to it.
Chris and Rose are going up to her parents place for the weekend. He's concerned that they are white privilege and he's just some black guy dating their daughter. She assures him that they are not racist and totally down to earth. When they arrive, something seems off. Dean, her father, tries to act cool and hip while her mother wants to hypnotize Chris into quitting smoking, a disgusting habit she hates. The only other two black people around are servants and don't seem all quite right.
This Guess Who's Coming To Dinner update spins the narrative around and takes the viewer on a wild ride where race is a comically and terrifying issue front and centre. Peele manages to craft a tight thriller where every little thing you hear characters say, might have different meanings later on. It's tightly written and well directed, it's no surprise this film is scoring high on rottentomatoes.
The cast works well together, blending casual terror into their performances. Whitford and Keener are the parents and if the film had one weak spot, I'd have to say it belongs to Keener. She seems uninterested in the role or maybe just bored. Whitford on the other hand seems to be having a lot of fun. The satire in the script is brought alive on screen from the cast.
You'll question what's really going on here and Peele reveals just enough at the right times. He manages to blend Night of the Living Dead, The Stepford Wives and numerous other films extremely well together. The explosive third act is tense and I wasn't ever really sure how it was going to end. Which is a rarity in films these days