Get Out
Okay so I feel like I'm literally the last person to see this movie. I've just been putting it off and off and off for weeks now but I did it, I watched it, and it was fucking awesome. So even if no ones gonna read this review because you've all seen it anyway then I'm still gonna write it anyway cause I love what I do.
So Get Out is a horror suspense flick and is the directorial debut of Jordan Peele. It stars British actor Daniel Kaluuya (of Black Mirror fame) who is in an interracial relationship with Allison Williams' character. They're going for a weekend away at Williams' parents house and Kaluuya is concerned that his partner hasn't told her parents that he's black. When they arrive however, everything seems fine at first until slowly Kaluuya's character beings to get more and more paranoid as he realises something is wrong with his girlfriends family and friends.
As I said at the beginning I've been putting off seeing this movie for weeks. I saw the trailer late last year and I've got to say, I really wasn't impressed. To me it looks like garbage. And that's a problem I have whenever I come across trailers for horror movies. Generally speaking the market for horror movies nowadays is so cluttered with rubbish like 'The Bye Bye Man' and any of the 'Paranormal Activity' franchise that it's hard for me to objectively see marketing material for a horror movie and be excited for it. Not many horror movies of recent years have excited me, bar say 'Lights Out' which I loved. This is why my addiction to seeking out trailers is detrimental to me. If I hadn't checked out the trailer for this, I would've seen this way earlier and this review would've been up months ago screaming from the rooftops about how awesome this is.
Get Out is excellently directed by Jordan Peele. The biggest thing this movie has going for it is how Peele uses visual and audible cues as well as an equal trickle of clues that the main character discovers over the length of the entire story that builds some really excellent tension. What he does right from minute one is add sheet after sheet, layer after layer, of paranoia in the mind of our lead and in the mind of the audience and by god is it effective. There's a plot point whereby Kaluuya's character is slowly scratching away at the arm rest of his chair because of the fear he's experiencing in the story and if that's not the perfect visual cue for what the audience experiences then I don't know what is. Get Out never lets up, never feels like it slows down, and is always, always engrossing from start till finish. I was a white knuckle thrill ride of suspense that's portrayed effortlessly and accessibly to all on screen.
The themes of this movie obviously from the get go are racism and paranoia. It's an excellent social commentary and I won't ruin my thoughts on the movies antagonists but if you're the one person who hasn't watched this, don't go into see Get Out set in your mind that the people in this movie are racist. Dig a little deeper and the truth that I see shows the film in a whole different light to most people and I feel improves the experience as a whole. Keep on asking yourself, are these people really racist?
As for the performances they are excellent all round. Kaluuya is a relative unknown especially in the US and actually only has a handful of small TV roles in the UK. He was excellent in Black Mirror and I hope this role in Get Out catapults hi into stardom and bigger and better roles. His American accent is even flawless, I started to forget he was actually British. British people doing American accents usually ends badly *cough cough* Cumberbatch in Doctor Strange *cough* but this one is solid. Allison Williams gets her film debut in this and she's a really talented actress too. She plays the loving partner excellently but halfway through her performance changes tune and she plays the flipside brilliantly too.
So at the end of the day Get Out took me off guard in the best possible way. The direction was flawless, the story compelling and the suspense and paranoia is really and palpable. The performances are solid from a bunch of newcomers and surprisingly there is a lot of genuine humour in this too. When I come out of a movie like this one, something that's pretty much perfect, (as with Birdman, Paterson and Alien that I've watched recently), I feel fresh. Like every part of my body and brain has been washed out internally with a jet wash and put back in again. The cobwebs have been well and truly washed off. This is definitely going to be my favourite horror movie of recent times and definitely gets an...
A+. Certifiably fresh.
So thank you to anyone out there who's reading this. I appreciate all two of my readers out there, you really make me feel good and I hope you enjoy what I write and drives you to appreciate movies the way I do. I will be sitting down to watch 'The Belko Experiment' tonight so look forward to me talking about that soon as well as my review for Guardians of the Galaxy 2 at the end of the week.
Bye for now, and please, keep watching!
So Get Out is a horror suspense flick and is the directorial debut of Jordan Peele. It stars British actor Daniel Kaluuya (of Black Mirror fame) who is in an interracial relationship with Allison Williams' character. They're going for a weekend away at Williams' parents house and Kaluuya is concerned that his partner hasn't told her parents that he's black. When they arrive however, everything seems fine at first until slowly Kaluuya's character beings to get more and more paranoid as he realises something is wrong with his girlfriends family and friends.
As I said at the beginning I've been putting off seeing this movie for weeks. I saw the trailer late last year and I've got to say, I really wasn't impressed. To me it looks like garbage. And that's a problem I have whenever I come across trailers for horror movies. Generally speaking the market for horror movies nowadays is so cluttered with rubbish like 'The Bye Bye Man' and any of the 'Paranormal Activity' franchise that it's hard for me to objectively see marketing material for a horror movie and be excited for it. Not many horror movies of recent years have excited me, bar say 'Lights Out' which I loved. This is why my addiction to seeking out trailers is detrimental to me. If I hadn't checked out the trailer for this, I would've seen this way earlier and this review would've been up months ago screaming from the rooftops about how awesome this is.
Get Out is excellently directed by Jordan Peele. The biggest thing this movie has going for it is how Peele uses visual and audible cues as well as an equal trickle of clues that the main character discovers over the length of the entire story that builds some really excellent tension. What he does right from minute one is add sheet after sheet, layer after layer, of paranoia in the mind of our lead and in the mind of the audience and by god is it effective. There's a plot point whereby Kaluuya's character is slowly scratching away at the arm rest of his chair because of the fear he's experiencing in the story and if that's not the perfect visual cue for what the audience experiences then I don't know what is. Get Out never lets up, never feels like it slows down, and is always, always engrossing from start till finish. I was a white knuckle thrill ride of suspense that's portrayed effortlessly and accessibly to all on screen.
The themes of this movie obviously from the get go are racism and paranoia. It's an excellent social commentary and I won't ruin my thoughts on the movies antagonists but if you're the one person who hasn't watched this, don't go into see Get Out set in your mind that the people in this movie are racist. Dig a little deeper and the truth that I see shows the film in a whole different light to most people and I feel improves the experience as a whole. Keep on asking yourself, are these people really racist?
As for the performances they are excellent all round. Kaluuya is a relative unknown especially in the US and actually only has a handful of small TV roles in the UK. He was excellent in Black Mirror and I hope this role in Get Out catapults hi into stardom and bigger and better roles. His American accent is even flawless, I started to forget he was actually British. British people doing American accents usually ends badly *cough cough* Cumberbatch in Doctor Strange *cough* but this one is solid. Allison Williams gets her film debut in this and she's a really talented actress too. She plays the loving partner excellently but halfway through her performance changes tune and she plays the flipside brilliantly too.
So at the end of the day Get Out took me off guard in the best possible way. The direction was flawless, the story compelling and the suspense and paranoia is really and palpable. The performances are solid from a bunch of newcomers and surprisingly there is a lot of genuine humour in this too. When I come out of a movie like this one, something that's pretty much perfect, (as with Birdman, Paterson and Alien that I've watched recently), I feel fresh. Like every part of my body and brain has been washed out internally with a jet wash and put back in again. The cobwebs have been well and truly washed off. This is definitely going to be my favourite horror movie of recent times and definitely gets an...
A+. Certifiably fresh.
So thank you to anyone out there who's reading this. I appreciate all two of my readers out there, you really make me feel good and I hope you enjoy what I write and drives you to appreciate movies the way I do. I will be sitting down to watch 'The Belko Experiment' tonight so look forward to me talking about that soon as well as my review for Guardians of the Galaxy 2 at the end of the week.
Bye for now, and please, keep watching!
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