{"id":1453,"date":"2017-03-03T04:18:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T04:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avoutput.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/03\/get-out-and-get-woke\/"},"modified":"2024-12-30T20:58:33","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T20:58:33","slug":"get-out-and-get-woke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avoutput.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/03\/get-out-and-get-woke\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Woke"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With much anticipation, I finally got around to seeing Jordan Peele<\/a>\u2019s horror thriller Get Out<\/i>. The marketing campaign and media presentation would have you believe that this is a horror movie through and through, but I came to a different conclusion. The story involves a young interracial couple, a Black man and White woman in their 20\u2019s Chris (Daniel Kaluuya<\/a>) and Rose (Allison Williams<\/a>), take a weekend trip to Rose\u2019s parents for a fateful meeting. The script transforms the traditional horror film dialog into tongue in cheek humor about racial relations in America, placing a young minority under the roof of the majority. The conclusion I came to was that this film is a horror movie for un-woke White America, and a comedy for Black Americans. Black Americans like me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My initial understanding was that this film would have a dark overtone with haunting visuals, but instead it\u2019s actually a well tempered thriller with very little in the way of gore, which surprised me. When I hear the term horror these days, I tend to associate it with gore porn films like Saw<\/i> or Dead Alive<\/i>. Instead, it takes every chance to make a point on the occasional wire thin conversations and situations that plague the domestic interracial relationships in America. I would say this was a timely release, but that would imply that this hasn\u2019t been the case in America for the better part of 100+ years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fear not horror fans, this film is still plenty scary, or at the very least has scary moments. It is still in the forefront a horror film with all the classic tropes, so even if you already are woke, you can sit at the edge of your seat and take a ride to one of the most disarmingly scary houses in recent cinema.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Throughout the film, you find references big and small to the relationship between White and Black Americans. One scene has Rose explaining that her family wasn\u2019t racist because her father voted for President Barack Obama and also that he would proceed to gush about it. In a later scene, you see Chris pick cotton from a cushion to help solve a problem. It is incredibly rewarding to find these little tidbits throughout the film. When the lights came up in the theater, I noticed I was one of the few people attending that was Black, which explains why I was also the only person laughing at a lot of the more subtle points. I looked left and right, but there was no one to dap in sight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ultimately, this was an incredibly enjoyable \u201chorror\u201d film that had clever spins and honestly one of the better visual narratives I has seen in horror films since gore porn took over the box office. I also don\u2019t wholeheartedly believe that this film is meant to shame or hurt anyone, but at its core it was intended to shine a spotlight on how uncomfortable simple conversation can be. Honest communication across cultures can be difficult. Especially when those cultures have for so long been trying to make peace while looking directly through one another. If you can sit back and take a joke that will leave you woke, take the time to see it, you won\u2019t be disappointed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

~* 8.5\/10 *~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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