The story has a very racist beginning: a rich white girl has made a black boyfriend and wants to take him home to see his parents. The beginning itself is very routine. If it hadn’t been for the spoilers, I would have thought it would be a plot like "Driving for Miss Daisy" or "Crash". After all, racism is a big gimmick in Hollywood movies. The parents of the rich girl are in a huge house in the deep mountains and old forest. Her father is a neurosurgeon and her mother is a psychiatrist. This explains why their family can afford such a large house. A younger brother, a typical rich second-generation performance, and two servants, like the typical ones from "Uncle Tom's Cabin".
In the first fifty minutes, I still thought it was a horror film about race; in the next thirty minutes, I discovered that it was a "post-racist" science fiction film. What is the difference between racism and post-racism? Just like the difference between modernism and postmodernism. Basically, postmodernism deconstructs everything about modernism.
How to deconstruct it? All points of discrimination against black people have been reversed by this film.
*The following are all spoilers, if you want to watch the movie, please come back after watching the movie*
The heroine's grandfather lost to Jesse Owens in the 36th Olympics. From now on, he ran wildly in the middle of the night, vowing to regain his new body. The old white lady touched her black boyfriend’s arm enviously and asked if the bed was particularly good; the old man said that black skin is the most popular now, and white is not popular anymore; the heroine’s father said that if there is a third vote, he will still Will vote for Obama; when the police heard the black buddies call the police to arrest black people as sex slaves, they laughed. The implication is that this is the 21st century. Do you still have this kind of horse hunting?
Yes, in the 21st century, Obama has been president for two terms. How could he still discriminate against blacks?
But the rich old man and old lady in the film really has nothing to do with discrimination? Looking at black people with morbid worship and scrutiny of commodities, how do you know that it is not another kind of discrimination? Isn’t it the form of slavery in the 21st century to keep the black minds in the quagmire and keep their souls in the abyss forever?
It is estimated that only black directors can create dramas that portray their own racial image so profoundly.
The film reminds me of "The Shining". It is also in a claustrophobic environment. The male protagonist gradually discovers more and more secrets and fears that cannot be escaped. The auction was very wonderful, like a Gothic novel. In the silent and weird atmosphere, what is hidden is the sinful human nature; the most similar thing to me is "Master Key", but "Get Out" is reversed a bit earlier, and the latter half is watching how the hero escapes. And the female protagonist's two people before and after reminds me of the wife in "The Lost Love", with her hair tied up and her temperament as two people. The scariest thing is of course the old lady, um, as for which old lady you will know after watching the movie.
After watching the movie, my scalp became numb, and I didn't sleep well for half the night, for fear that people around me might one day sell me as a slave. The body is imprisoned, it is always possible to escape; the soul is imprisoned, except for the flashback of the flash memory, is there any way to escape?
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