Racism In Get Out

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Often it is difficult to show one true self when traveling with a purpose of fitting in and being liked by others. In the horror film “Get Out” directed by Jordan Peele, the protagonist Chris is invited by his girlfriend Rose to spend the weekend at her parent's house. He is conscious that her family may not replicate the same feelings towards him as his girlfriend due to their ethnicity- he is African American, and she is white. On the drive to Rose’s parent's house, she accidents hit a deer and call the police. The police arrive, and he begins to question Chris although he had nothing to do with the accident since he was not driving. Rose defends him and the police leaves without further questions. When they arrive to the house, Chris is…show more content…
As he spends time with her family, they make racial comments that alarm him, but he does not show it because he is putting up a different persona to get them to like him. He tries his best to keep his shadow a secret and not reveal his true feelings towards them. In the middle of the night, he escapes the bedroom because he feels constraint and is forced to act like someone else other than himself in that house. While he is outside, he witnesses Walter, one of the workers, acting strange as if he was someone else. However, this was not the only scenario he saw one of the workers acting strangely. Georgina the servant had also had an incident where she would act strange, for instance, she would always look at herself in any glass surface, or her emotions would be fully intact because she would laugh or cry when it was unnecessary. He knew something was wrong in this household because they would always defend the Armitage family, no matter…show more content…
When he confronted Rose, she said it was okay for them to leave but to discover it was a trap. That was never the intentions she wanted to keep him trapped in that household like the rest of the employees there. Chris realizes that the Armitage family has been cutting the brains of the African Americans and transplanting them to the white guest bodies and that the African American conscious remains in the “sunken place.” As soon as he uncovered this, he managed in escaping and preventing this scenario from happening to him. Chris persona was no longer intact and was revealing his shadow of him being afraid and what he thought of the family to everyone. Also, the Armitage family was also not putting up with a persona, and they unleashed their true selves to Chris, demonstrating that they were evil and had excruciating intentions of hurting the African American
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