PLOT SUMMARY: Chris is nervous about meeting his girlfriend's parents at their vacation home. When he reaches there, he realizes that things are just not what they seem to be.
We live in a world that thrives on progress. With progress comes change and these changes mostly better our lives to a large extent.
The most important reform was the tolerance level where races were concerned. It became important to accept people from all cultural backgrounds. Of course, not everybody welcomed this change and there are still people out there with prejudices.
And then there are some who can be friends with people from other races but won't let them forget that they are friends with a person of a different race.
And in Get Out we are introduced to people who specifically target men from a different race for a very interesting reason.
GET OUT Movie Plot
In the middle of the night, a man named Andre is walking down the road when he spots a car following him. He tries to change his direction of walking only to be attacked by a man ij a medieval helmet and put into the car.
We then meet Rose, eyeing pastries at a cafe. She buys a few, gets coffee, and heads over to her boyfriend's place. Chris is a photographer and the couple are planning a trip to go see Rose's parents. Chris is hesitant because of his skin color and race but Rose assures him that her family isn't racist and would vote for Obama a third time if they could.
When Chris' friend Rod, who works as a TSA agent learns of his plans, he tries to discourage him from going, reminding Chris that he will be uncomfortable at an all whites gathering. Chris has more faith in his girlfriend. In retrospect, he should have just listened to his buddy, but Chris wants to believe that changing times means that people are no longer racist.
He does seem a little uncomfortable when Rose tells him he's the first black guy she's dated. Chris, reassured that it isn't a mistake to go see her family, heads off to her family's home.
On the way, Rose hits a deer. The police comes by and asks Chris for his ID even though he wasn't the one driving. Rose calls out on the cop for being racist and the cop goes on his way. Chris is delighted that his girlfriend stuck up for him.
They finally reach Rose's parents house. Dean, a neurosurgeon and her father, makes the same comment about Obama. Apparently anyone from another race talking about Obama means they are not racist.
Rose's mother Missy is a hypnotherapist and is stoic. She notices Chris is a smoker and offers to cure him of his bad habit by offering a hypnotherapy session. Chris politely declines.
Rose's parents have two black helpers: Walter and Georgina and Chris gets a little grumpy because it doesn't look good that white people have black servants. Dean notices Chris making faces and remarks that the two helpers were hired to look after his parents and after they passed away, he didn't want to fire the two. But Chris notices how Georgina and Walter seem off.
Later, at tea, Chris notices Missy stirring her tea a bit too much. He is made to reveal how his father left when he was very young and his mother died in a car accident when he was eleven years old.
The parents then reveal that there's a big party tomorrow. Georgina appears to get a seizure and is told to go and lie down. Rose's brother Jermemy comes along and is clearly a jerk. At dinner he tries to get Chris to spar with him thinking since Chris is black he would be great at aggressive sports. Chris says he's not into it and isn't happy about the stereotype. The parents send Jeremy off to bed.
Chris and Rose head off to sleep too and Rose apologizes for the weird way her family behaves. In the middle of the night, Chris gets a craving for cigarettes and heads out. He sees Walter running about and charging at him. At the last second he dodges Chris who turns around to see Georgina staring at him through the window. But she isn't staring at him, but her own reflection and playing with her hair.
Chris heads back inside only to find Missy with a teacup again. Chris finds it odd that the woman is obsessed with tea. She remarks about his nicotine habit and keeps stirring her tea. She makes him talk about the night of his mother's accident.
Chris realizes too late that he has been tricked into hypnotherapy. He talks about how he was watching TV while his mother had been hit by a car and dying by the side of the road. Kid Chris digs his nails into yhe bedpost while adult Chris clutches the armrests of the couch he is on. Missy taps her spoon thrice and Chris sinks into the void.
He awakens the next morning refreshed and no longer craving a smoke. As in every horror movie, Chris' phone starts to die on him. He plugs it in but throughout the day, it keeps getting unplugged with Georgina taking the blame for it and telling him she's terrible at dusting.
At the party Chris is subjected to more offhand remarks, mostly because he's the only person of color present. When he spots another black man, he gravitates towards him but finds his clothes peculiar. The viewer knows it is Andre from the first scene who was kidnapped. Chris finds him familiar but hasn't placed him yet. He also finds it odd that the black man is far younger than his partner.
As he takes a picture to show Rod, the flash goes off and Andre, who is calling himself by a different name, goes berserk. He grabs Chris and yells to his face to Get Out...the name of the movie.
He is led away and when he returns he talks like a robot.
Chris meets a blind white man called Jim who is an art dealer but is blind. He makes a remark about Chris eyes.
Chris has had enough of these subtle racist remarks and goes to talk to his friend Rod to whom he had also sent a picture of Andre.
Rod says the man does look familiar and that he will look into it.
Chris and Rose go for a walk, away from everyone at the party. Chris remarks that he feels uncomfortable here and wants to go home after all the weird incidents. Rose agrees with him that she too suspects something weird is going on. They decide to leave after making some excuse.
Meanwhile, Dean is holding a silent auction. Beside him is a picture of Chris and the other guests are bidding on him. Jim is the one who "wins" Chris.
Chris is packing when Rod gets back to him and tells him the man is Dre, the guy who disappeared some days ago. Chris wonders what he is doing here of all the places. The phone of course dies.
It is then that Chris notices that the closet door is open and finds a box full of Rose's previous boyfriends, all of them black. Chris realizes Rose lying about him being her first black boyfriend.
GET OUT Ending Explained with Spoilers!
Chris heads downstairs and asks Rose to hand over the car keys. She keeps looking for them in her large purse. Chris goes down but his way is blocked by Jeremy who forbids him from leaving. Chris tells Rose to give him the keys, now suspecting she is delaying him on purpose. Rose keeps telling him she's looking and then looks up and smiles and says she can't give him the keys.
Jeremy lunges at Chris while Dean screams to keep him intact. Missy taps a spoon on her tea cup thrice and Chris sinks immediately.
Poor Missy has nothing to do but roam around all day with a tea cup.
Chris awakens later and finds himself strapped to a chair and being forced to watch a documentary about why Dean does what he does. He brags about his experiment through which people can live forever, although is someone else's body.
Chris realizes his body will remain the same but his mind will be taken over by someone else. There's a video of a teacup too and when the spoon hits the rim thrice, Chris screams No but is powerless against the hypnosis.
Meanwhile, Rod is worried when Chris doesn't pick up his call. He goes straight to the police who find his theory about white people kidnapping black people and using them as sex slaves, amusing. He is laughed out of the station and decides to take matters into his own hands.
Chris awakens again and this time it is Jim telling him about the procedure and that he desperately wanted Chris' eyes and doesn't care about his race. He does tell Chris he will continue to live as a passenger and the side effect will be things like the camera flash that will confuse him. Chris notices his scratching has torn the armrest material and the padding has come out. The tea cup comes onscreen again and when the spoon hits it thrice, Chris goes out again.
Dean and Jeremy are preparing for the illegal surgery. Jeremy is sent to get Chris bit surprise, sometime while watching TV, Chris had stuffed the cotton into his ears so he couldn't hear the teacup. He attacks Jeremy and knocks him out.
Dean comes looking for his son who has failed to deliver Chris to the operating room. Chris rushes at him and Dean is killed when he is pushed onto deer antlers. A candle is knocked over and Jim, who was prepped for surgers, burns.
Rose is in her room, with good quality headphones that not only block the sounds of her family being killed but also prevent her from smelling smoke. She's already researching the next black guy she's going to date and have her family turn into a robot.
Upstairs, Missy tries to restrain Chris but is stabbed. Her beloved tea cup is smashed.
Jeremy pops up again because in a horror movie a villain rarely stays down. This time Chris bashes his head by stomping on him, showing he was right after all, black people are good at aggressive sports.
He runs to the car and accidentally hits Georgina walking around like a zombie. He gets her into the car but she attacks him like a villain in horror movie. This distraction causes a crash and Georgina's wig flies off, revealing a scar on her skull. She is killed in the crash.
Rose finally hears this and heads out with a shotgun. She sees Georgina and calls her grandmother. Turns out her grandparents' brains were inserted into these black people who Rose had lured by being friends with them. But then her grandparents were treated like servants? Why even keep them around then? Just so they could be used as servants?
Then it's Walter's turn to die. He comes in, Chris uses his phone flash which causes the "passenger" to awaken. He takes Rose's shotgun and shoots her before turning the gun on himself.
Chris decides to finish the job by choking her but she tells him she really did love him and he stops.
A police car arrives and Rose immediately turns against him and calls for help.
But surprise, it's Rod who has come to save his friend. Rod gives a huge "I told you so" speech to Chris and the get into the car without another look at Rose who dies.
Moral of the story: stick to making friends, especially ones who have great jobs like being in the police or TSA.
Unfortunately this movie paints interracial dating in a bad color. Who isn't going to be cautious before dating someone from a different race after watching this movie?
However, it was also an example of how racism works both ways. Most movies show people being wary of blacks, this movie showed the blacks being wary of whites because of the way they are thought to be.
Get Out is an interesting movie with plenty of sit- on- the- edge- of -your- seat moments.
Scars scale: 4/5
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