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John DeCesaro's avatar

I admire the way GET OUT implicates the audience. It's something that many horror movies attempt, perhaps to justify the violence they depict. GET OUT is much smarter about it, placing us right in the racial themes. There is a clear reason that Peele shoots Chris's tear-streaked face staring right at the camera. It's an unshakable shot and so well acted.

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Andrew Rogers's avatar

To your note about the men being praised as if on an auction block: I appreciated on a pre-Nope rewatch how, while the grandpa in the gardener and the Olympic photos bring up tropes of black physical superiority and white physical insecurity, Stephen Root’s desire for Chris’s eyes reflects the liberal covetousness for the black *aesthetic sensibility*. They don’t just want to be strong like a linebacker, they want to possess the perspective and ornamental markings of black people. It’s very “House Dems wearing kente cloth.”

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