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Will this help race relations?
posted by RaySTAFFMOD on March 1, 2017 at 12:38 PM
Get Out, a remarkably racist kill-the-white-people horror movie that makes Django Unchained seem like My Dinner With Andre, is the box office and critical smash of the winter. …
Get Out could have been a very amusing movie, but Jordan Peele correctly perceived that in this era there is big money in supplying audiences with their politically correct racial hate uncut with much in the way of wit. People don’t want intelligence in 2017, they want anti-white animus. …
Reply by Innovator
on March 1, 2017 at 3:23 PM
Though this did have the kill-the-white family ending, they actually did deserve what happened to them, and not because they were racist but for entirely different reasons. What I took from the movie was people will watch it with whatever experiences they've had in life and in which place they stood in the party of characters. The dialogue would intentionally make you squirm or amuse you based on that alone, but it's a trick that Jordan Peele pulls on you. When one finally see what the movie is about, it cleverly makes you rethink everything you saw and felt at that point, and see the intelligent writing behind what could be initially perceived as anti-white shlock.
Reply by WalkenOnSunshine
on March 3, 2017 at 6:02 PM
Did you even see the movie? You're way off base.
Reply by A-Dubya
on March 4, 2017 at 3:10 AM
Geez. Where did that come from? I don't know how you gathered that summary from this film.
Reply by WalkenOnSunshine
on March 5, 2017 at 3:42 PM
Sounds like a huge chip on his shoulder. I could easily tell what news sources this guy watches lol.
Reply by IncendiaryIndie
on March 5, 2017 at 11:31 PM
I am going to ignore the statements made by the OP (who is a moron, in typical discussion board fashion) and answer the question at hand as best as I can.
I do not think this movie will help race relations.
This movie is too harsh a dose of reality for those being criticized to ever take it into consideration.
Reply by Ray
on March 6, 2017 at 3:05 AM
This not IMDB ...do not use the term "moron"
Reply by Timmy Bermuda
on March 11, 2017 at 4:38 PM
Snowflake would be a more appropriate term to characterize the OP.
Reply by skibumtim
on March 22, 2017 at 6:52 PM
I think it should. It shows that even white people want to be black. :) But in reality, all the movie maker's intentions were was to entertain. People reading more into it than that are doing nothing more than the likes that try to figure out if Ironman would win in a fight against Thor. It's a movie. It will help race relations about as much as Transformers did for us accepting alien robots from another planet.
Reply by Minus The Beer
on March 27, 2017 at 11:11 AM
Ah yes, this website is starting to feel more and more like the IMDB boards everyday.
Remind me again why I miss them?
Reply by Renovatio
on April 1, 2017 at 7:17 PM
I loathed Django Unchained... It's not really a film... I felt it was the revenge porn of race movies...
I don't feel that way about Get Out... Get Out is much more playful, has a less serious subject (it's a meet the parents/stepford wives movie, not a slavery movie)... There's a bit of comedy of manners, some playfulness with cliche, genre tropes and stereotypes...
It's not a social commentary movie, it's not a message movie, regardless of what the critics or media says it is or how the producers are marketing it... I feel critics who are positioning it this way are bringing too much of their own baggage into the film and not dealing with it on it's own terms... It's not a "get whitey" movie... It's an escape from the crazies-who-want-to-abduct/consume-me movie...
It reminded me a lot of Stepford Wives, Meet the Parents, and a little bit of Knock Knock for some reason although the similarities are few with the latter.
P.S. I'm not an American, but have lived there for several years in the past.
Reply by MrsBuckyBarnes
on April 5, 2017 at 5:08 PM
it was very amusing. it seems this movie has gone over your head if you think it is racist. i am not even convinced that the armitage family were racist, in the narrow definition where they determined black people to be inferior based on the colour of their skin. their attitude towards blackness was quite complex.
i disagree with the view of the poster above that this is not a social commentary movie. there are several moments that directly comment on the black experience (and not just in america, as a black british woman i could definitely relate) most notably the difference in response from chris and rose when confronted by the police.
as to whether this film will improve race relations, no, it won't and that is quite a bizarre question to ask tbh.
Reply by A-Dubya
on April 5, 2017 at 6:19 PM
Lots of off base comments in threads that clearly show that many people don't understand what the movie was about, or that the plot was over their heads. Either that, or people just want to be trolls.
Reply by Renovatio
on April 5, 2017 at 6:53 PM
@A-Dubya
Why don't you enlighten us with your perspective? ... get us on-base, so to speak...
Reply by DRDMovieMusings
on August 30, 2017 at 2:04 AM
I'm sorry you missed the elements that made Django Unchained so engaging.
Reply by HEYitzED
on September 17, 2017 at 11:33 PM
Well I guess that's how you perceive it. I'm white and I treat everyone I meet as equal. Yet I was cheering when Chris was killing the white family. I loved every second of it.