Get Out Symbolism

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Get Out is the horror film directed by comedian Jordan Peele, it follows main character Chris Washington as he joins his girlfriend Rose on a trip to meet her white liberal parents. What happens when Chris and Rose arrive is what made Get Out one of the most successful horror films of the year. Peele created a film that dealt with a black person’s navigation in White America, in my research of the discourse surrounding Get Out I found five articles and one thread of viewer comments on Tumblr.
In the first article, TheWrap.com discusses director Jordan’s Peele interpretation of the “sunken place,” Peele defines the “sunken place” as the marginalization that Black Americans feel, “The Sunken Place means we’re marginalized. No matter how hard
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Things like the “sunken place,” the teacup, and the inclusion of an Asian character in the auction for Chris’s body are discussed in detail throughout these articles. These sources focus on the way that Peele uses symbolism to bring attention to the history of racism and the way that racism is still present today. Two more of my sources discuss the conversation around racism that the film attempted to create in society, the article comparing Get Out and I Am Not Your Negro found that both films try to discuss the “death of white racial innocence (Benjamin, 2017).” These films show that there is a large majority of White Americans who try to behave as though they “don’t see color” or that the problem of race relations in America ended after the Civil Rights Movement. The “white racial innocence” discussed in The New Yorker article is explained as “liberal racism” in the TheGuardian.com article. This article talks about “liberal racism in America,” it is important to note that the racism in this film does not come from “southern rednecks or neo-Nazis (Bakare, 2017)” but people that you would feel comfortable interacting with daily; your white teachers, your white friend’s parents, any white person who loudly proclaims that they aren’t racist, but continues to treat black people with a polite detachment. The article from Consequenceofsound.net argued that the film brought more

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