Get Out By Jordan Peele: Film Analysis

In his film, Get Out, Jordan Peele uses the horror genre to make a social critique about racism in modern-day America. The film essentially asks us to be weary and skeptical of white liberalism through its portrayal of the white characters in the film. Peele launches a critique that reveals the horrors of white liberals who are invulnerable to black struggle, who try to define blackness, and who try use their black counterparts as a means in achieving their own gain. Peele essentially believes there is some fraudulence in white liberalism, and uses Get Out as a cautionary tale against it. Peele asks us to be skeptical of white liberals who fail to be vulnerable to the black struggle through his characterization of Rose, the film’s leading

The film centers on this idea of the “Coagula Effect,” which is an experiment that places the mind of whites and implants them into black bodies. The white people, in the film, only appreciate blacks for their natural strength, endurance, speed, etc. They all gather at the Armitage’s house each year to purchase a black body to exploit, for they wish to use the power and abilities of blacks for their own selfish desires. For example, Rose’s grandparents’s bodies were old and immobile, so they used the bodies of Walter and Georgina to continue to live on and roam about the earth. Another example is the blind art dealer, Jim Hudson, who purchases Chris’s body in order to have vision. Hudson pleads, it was not Chris’s race that intrigued him—just his eyes, but yet he was still fine with purchasing a black man’s body in order to gain vision. He still participated in the selling and buying of an African-American for personal gain, making him just as much of a villain. Peele reveals that over-appreciation of a stereotype could lead to exploitation, like how the whites in the film are too intrigued with the functions and designs of blacks to a point where they are willing to pay thousands of dollars to have a black body to benefit from and harness. Peele argues, it is possible to appreciate black culture without wearing it or taking it. By using such an extreme situation, Peele prompts us to be fearful of whites who try and harness black talents to satisfy their own wild