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Because I am Obsessed with . Yes, I said “first” because I did something I usually don’t: I went to the theater again to see a movie. TWICE in one month. That is how obsessed I am with this. It is about a Black dude named Chris, who goes to meet the parents of his white girlfriend (Rose) at their suburban home.

What was supposed to be a simple “Meet the Parents” turns much darker as the weekend goes on. The only Black people around are corny and creepy AF, and the parents seem overly friendly. Their friends aren’t much better. Chris is in for the time he never expected. By now, you might have seen it.

If so, you’ve probably perused the whole internet and read 5. I’m not promising you that mine will be any different. But I had to throw my hat in the ring because we gotta discuss it.

The 2nd time I went to see it, I took a notepad with me, and ended up taking 1. I’m writing this from those 1. Let’s start by saying how much I LOVEDDD everything about the movie. Everything about it. And I do NOT do horror movies. If you wanna ensure I have an awful time, force me to see a horror film.

The way my punkassness is set up, I do not do scary films. But Get Out is not a horror, in the Poltergeist or Children of the Corn way. It is a horror in that what it depicts is the horrific nature of white supremacy in America. I’ve had to talk a bunch of people off the “I can’t see it because I don’t like horror movie” ledges by letting them know that I too am a scaredy cat, and this is not that. This film made me look at Jordan Peele completely different. This ain’t just Peele from Key & Peele.

This is a genius who wrote, directed and produced one of the best films of the last 1. This is the moneymaker who spent $5 million to create a piece of art that has now made over $1.

This is a Black man who shows that Black people can create film that will be consumed by the masses. Blind (2017) Movie Theatre here. Peele has reached next levels, and it’s because he created gold. I’m obsessed with Get Out, because there was no line of dialogue wasted, no musical lyric coincidental, and every single thing is intentional. That doggone movie is deeper than the Pacific. Deeper than rap. Deeper than the well of Cheeto Satan’s ignorance.

Now, let’s talk about the things I peeped in there. If you are reading past this point, I ASSUME that you’ve seen the movie. SPOILER ALERTS ALL OVER. Leave now if you haven’t or don’t care to have everything revealed to you. Andre’s snatching.

In the beginning of the movie, when Andre was walking in the dark and trying to get directions, he referred to whoever he was talking to as “Baby.” I assume it was a woman. Right then, a white car starts following him. Come to find out, that was Rose’s brother, Jeremy who snatched him. Which means, he was probably talking to Rose on that phone.

To support this theory, later on we find out that Andre has been missing for 6 months. And Rose and Chris have been dating for 5. THE MATHS SUPPORT IT that Rose was the conduit there. Rose wasn’t shit from the get go and we shoulda realized it. Especially when she was insisting that her parents aren’t racist, after withholding the info that her boyfriend was Black.

GIRL if they weren’t racist, you wouldn’t bury that lede. This scene also gave me Trayvon Martin vibes. An innocent Black man walking in a neighborhood that he isn’t thought to fit in, when a white man accosts him for no reason. The clean side. So when Rose and Chris are on the way to her parent’s house, and her lack of concentration makes them hit the deer, they get out the car and the ONLY side of the car that shows any signs of the hit was Chris’s side. His side was covered in deer blood and hers was clean AF. There was almost a line of demarcation between how his side was grimy and hers was untouched.

I thought it spoke to the fact that even when white people are at fault, they get away scot free and we bear the brunt. The deer. The deer was present throughout the film, starting with Rose hitting the one that was crossing the road, sending it to its death. Deer are also known as “bucks.” A buck is a term used to sometimes represent Black men, and that deer being killed by her, is foreshadowing the fact that he’s in danger. And he’s going to meet his end. Meanwhile, he felt drawn to the deer in a visceral way, and had a hard time seeing it laying on the road, slowly dying. This was a moment for him that took him back to the fact that his mother died similarly, alone on the side of the road. But make no mistakes, that deer was really representing Black men.

Anywho, we come full circle with the deer, when the taxidermy one in the basement is used to kill Dr. Just when you think you’ve got us, we rise back up and shank you. The ID fiasco. When the cop wanted to see Chris’ ID, and Rose barked him down off it, it wasn’t to protect her man, but to make sure there was no paper trail connecting her to the man she’s about to send to his end. But her tone could have easily escalated the situation with the police officer.

This is how “well meaning” white people will sometimes get Black folks in trouble. The Omega signs When they arrive at the Armitage’s house and walk unto their porch, the surrounding shrubbery has Omega signs on it. Omega is “the end.” I notice that in old family pictures or in the video of Grandpa Armitage talking about the Coagula Experiment that he’s creating, these omega signs were not in the shrubbery. I guess they were added once Black people walk in but never walk out the same again, as they’ve met their end in the Sunken Place. Dr. Armitage’s words As Rose’s daddy (Dean) gives Chris a tour of the house, he drops more than a couple of clues that he’s batshit crazy, and that he is there to steal his soul.“Such privilege to experience someone else’s culture.”“My mother loved the kitchen, so we keep a piece of her in here.” *camera pans to Georgina standing by the kitchen island*“We hired Walter and Georgina to care for our parents. When they died, I couldn’t bear to let them go.”Remember that reference he made to the basement being locked because of “Black mold.” Who’da thunk he meant it literally?

That basement is where they go to mold the minds of white folks into Black people’s bodies. And of course, his whole rant on how he hates deer. That summabitch. But most of all, is how he told Chris about his father, who almost made the US Olympics team, but lost to Jesse Owens. He mentions how he “almost got over it.” Sore losing ass white people. The whole Sunken Place thing began because of bad sportsmanship. And the sense of entitlement that comes with white supremacy.

Hot ass mess. Dinner table weirdness. Jeremy, Rose’s brother is a creep. At the dinner table, when he’s asking Chris if he’s an MMA fan, I think it was because he was wondering if his body would be good to take over for that purpose. He even said “With your frame and genetic makeup, you’d be a fucking beast.”Appeasing white guilt. After the shenanigans of day 1, Rose apologizes to Chris for not seeing her family’s prejudices before, and for not taking him serious when he side- eyed her for not telling them that he’s Black.

She owed him every piece of that apology, and instead of accepting it, Chris tells her the apology isn’t necessary. And he tells her not to worry about it. This is how Black people still go out of our way sometimes to make white people feel better about wronging us. We’re so quick to forgive, and we’re too busy trying to appease their guilt that we don’t give ourselves enough time to process the trauma they put us through. There’s also that bit of Black man- white girl worship. They can do no wrong. I’ma leave that right there too.

Pick it up if you want. Walter’s run and Georgina’s primping. First of all, Chris shouldn’t have woken his ass up and wander off in that house in the middle of the night. That dude specializes in hustling backwards, clearly. When he goes to the backyard, and Walter races past him weird AF, we know what that is owed to now. Grandpa is making use of the speed and agility he didn’t have before.