Racism In The Film 'Get Out'

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GET OUT A story about going on racism. When we see around us we see that we all are in the most advanced and technical world. We are in the 21st century where we consider ourselves the most modest and civilized people. But, I think the more we are modernized and enlightened, the more we are becoming narrow minded about race. According to me, in today’s world race is not only about color now, it is more about the upper class and lower class. We human beings are known as the most smartest of all the organisms, but our smartness is leading us to create and build differences between our own human race. Other animals and organisms with whom we share this planet and the ones from whom the species human came, never show these attitudes towards their other members. Firstly, in this …show more content…

But, still every morning we see or hear to some news saying that a black is killed or a white shot a brown man and said that ‘get out of my country’. These lines then really hurts, but, what we do, when we hear this; nothing. We can only debate or think but are unable to bring a big change. Similarly, an effort done by Jordan Peele is appreciable. He made a really good movie named as “Get Out” which revolves around experiences faced by black people. Following thesis will throw light on some of the aspects seen in the movie “Get Out”. In this movie, a white girl named Rose has a black boyfriend named Chris. She wants Chris to meet her parents and she convinced him to do so. On the way home, their car hits a animal (that was a dear), Rose was driving the car, but when police arrived and started the investigation they asked Rose to show her ID which is correct as she was driving, but it surprised to see that people till now see black as minority, when the police asked Chris to show his ID to them whereas usually they don’t, which proves the level of discrimination in the law and democratic nation. Then after this, when they reached home

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