Get Out Commentary

First off “Get Out” by Jordan Peele was an amazing and intelligent movie to watch. The way Peele was able to weave in historical context such as slavery and current day societal issues of minorities still continuously being oppressed and underestimated by white elites, using successful blacks as their victims. Furthermore suggesting that whites want to be structured like the black successful and strong men in society by setting the scene with Dean Armitage, Rose’s father in the movie, explaining to Chris how his father ran in the 1936 summer olympics with Jesse Owens, the only black man running and who won the gold medal in front of Hitler, stating that “He almost got over it.” Establishing that minorities, especially blacks, are underestimated a lot in today's society and that is mostly due to blacks not having access to things that would make them successful as white people do, and this is illustrated in the dialogue between characters and the movie progresses. Skipping close to the end Rose states that she cannot give him the keys to the car symbolizing that blacks are constantly getting stuck  in the ranks of society they’re in because the white elites don't allow them to move up in society. Lastly, at the very end Peele did a great  job of physically illustrating that physical and psychological change, concluding that the society we live in is messed up and that anyone no matter their race break through the oppression that's not allowing them to reach their full potential.