“Get Out” As A Horror Film To Reveal Racial Discrimination

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Get Out as a Horror Film
The film Get Out falls largely into the horror genre given its many bizarre happenings. Overall, the use of this genre in the movie helps to reveal the racial discrimination that is prevalent in the film. The discrimination is mainly directed against the blacks whereby they are easily taken advantage of and controlled, in both body and mind. The ending scene in the film, in particular, provides evidence of the horrors that surround this story. The subjection of African-Americans to abjection in the film Get Out is the main cause of the horrors that are witnessed in the last scene.
The beginning of the Get Out ending scene shows that the movie is a horror. The scene begins with a terrified-looking Chris that has just been in a car accident together with another passenger that is dead. The two are blacks, and just before their predicament, they had been running from the white Armitage family that was notorious for controlling the black people. His facial expression, especially when he sees Georgina dead beside him is a true definition of horror. As is typical of any horror film, we also see much blood in the car that is mainly from Georgina who is dead from the accident. As Kristeva notes, this encounter with the dead or a corpse brings in the idea of the object by which we are made to remember our materiality as human beings (Bove). The scary look on Chris’ face is possibly due to the realization that his life just like Georgina’s would end at any time. Before Chris even has time to react or assess the full extent of the accident, a sudden loud and scary noise emanates from the gun being cocked by Rose and the fact that it startles him back to reality, proves that the film is indeed a horror.
The real horror in the film is evident where the blacks were hypnotized and possessed by the whites in order to have control over them. The horrific act provides evidence of racial discrimination since only black people such as Walter and Georgina were exposed to such. A little earlier in this scene, Rose is heard calling Georgina by the name of Rose’s grandmother. Similarly, Walter was referred to by the name Roman. By this, it is quite evident that the Armitages had hypnotized the two and the spirits of the white people they were referred to as now possessed them. This also brings in abjection as described by Kristeva whereby one is not their real selves, but instead, they are between self and other or between human and animal (Kristeva, 2). This element of horror is revealed in the film when Georgina unconsciously follows the instructions given by Rose and attacks Chris.
Additionally, Walter also blindly obeys Rose when she orders him to shoot Chris. When the two are finally freed from the hypnotization, they fall into some sort of depression where they seem not to know their real selves. Walter shows the full extent of this depression when after being saved by Chris and shooting Rose, he turns the gun to himself.
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