5 spoiler-free reasons Australians should be excited for ‘Get Out’
It’s not every day that a seasoned comedy writer totally flips the script and delivers a psychological thriller that actually makes you think.
Get Out is not your typical scary movie — in fact, it’s about as far away from those classic slasher flicks as you can get. Written and directed by comedy mastermind Jordan Peele, Get Out is the story Chris Washington, a black man who meets his white girlfriend’s family for the first time and encounters unspeakable horrors.
What happens is a brand of thriller not typically seen by audiences — a thriller rooted in social injustice, systemic racism, and some good old-fashioned screaming. It’s a movie that’ll freak you out and present a villain far scarier than any of the masked psychopaths you watched growing up.
Get Out flips the psychological thriller genre on its head
Forget everything you’ve ever known about thriller movies. Forget the screaming, forget the gore, and forget the protagonist inexplicably choosing the highest room in the house to hide out in — forget it all. Get Out is not your typical thriller in the sense that it doesn’t rely on any of the played-out tropes that have scared audiences for years.
Instead, this movie wages psychological warfare on the viewers through paranoia and suspense. It opens up the infected wound of racism and white privilege in America and presents it in a way that’s scarily easy to relate to.
There’s some serious star-power behind the film
Not only are we getting a film from the brilliant mind of Jordan Peele — a man who’s made his mark through the absurdist comedic styling of Key & Peele — but also the cast itself is made up of some seriously talented people. You’ve got Sicario’s Daniel Kaluuya in the lead role and Girls star Allison Williams as his girlfriend, plus Catherine Keener, Bradley Whitford, Caleb Landry Jones, and way more.
It really makes you think
It’s the weird little moments in Get Out that really make you think about the main issue this movies succeeds in tackling: Race. Take, for example, Rose’s white father telling Chris he would’ve voted for Barack Obama for a third term in the election, or how he tries to drop some slang as an attempt to “get on Chris’s level.” It’s uncomfortable, it’s awkward, and it demonstrates a problem that needs to be explored. That’s the crux of Get Out's plot, presenting a movie that frightens us in a new way by bringing the conversation back to the viewer.
It’s doing well — like — crazy well
Not only is Get Out already a critical success in the States, but the film’s box office success has made Jordan Peele the first black writer-director to hit the coveted nine-digit mark with a debut film. In fact, it only took sixteen days for this movie to make $100 million — not an easy feat for anybody, especially for a filmmaker whose last movie was about a guy trying to rescue his kidnapped cat.
You’ll never guess how it ends
Seriously, you’re going to pop a few blood vessels trying to imagine how Get Out ends. You’ll never figure it out, but luckily you can quell all your burning questions by getting off your couch and seeing it in theatres ASAP.
Get Out hits theatres nationwide on 4 May.
