GET OUT

THE FILM ‘GET OUT’

 “GET OUT” is the first movie directed and written by Jordan Peele, which is a horror film   premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2017. The movie is about a black man goes to visit his white girlfriend’s family, both her parents and her brother are white people and there are two black people in their family working for them(“Jordan Peele Biography”, 2017). The story is more likely talking about a “black body trade”, in the second half of the movie, the protagonist was auctioned off to a disabled white man due to his strong and healthy body to put the white man’s brain into his body.

KEY FEATURES IN ‘GET OUT’

At the beginning of the film, from 11 minutes 30 seconds to 12 minutes 30 seconds, the close-up of the face of Kris and the deer who killed him. The director arranged the close-up here to render a suspenseful atmosphere and set the stage for the ending.
The film starts from 14 minutes and 04 seconds to 14 minutes and 50 seconds from the middle scene. The picture shows the scene from Kris and Lucy arriving at the parents’ house and getting off the door to the door. The picture shows the house huge and the characters very small, suggesting The danger of the house and the weakness of the characters. Later, a telescopic lens was also used. The lens slowly zoomed in and cut into the back of a black gardener from the right side of the lens. In fact, he just saw everything from his perspective, combined with the background music, rendering a strange atmosphere.
From 31 minutes to 37 minutes and 30 seconds, I think it is the essence of this film. This clip describes Lucy’s mother helping Kris to quit smoking by actually hypnotizing him to control him. Starting from the clip, the background sound is only the dialogue between the two and the sound of Lucy’s mother stirring coffee with the spoon and touching the wall of the cup. The director’s arrangement maximizes the anxious atmosphere, even bringing the audience into it. This clip is basically a medium shot and close-up shots. The medium shot is mainly used when the two are talking. The close-up shot is mainly used for the cup and the facial expressions of both sides. There are a total of four close-ups belonging to the cup. After each close-up, Kris’s hypnotic degree is also deepened, suggesting the hypnotic effect of the cup and the progress of the hypnotic degree. After successfully hypnotizing Kris, Kris fell into the endless abyss but there was a window in the darkness, through which he could see the outside. The camera cut back the close-up of Kris’s face and found him sitting on the sofa with a dull expression and horror , Tears flowed from both eyes. In fact, his body and consciousness have been separated, becoming a puppet who has no autonomous consciousness and obey the hypnotist. This film has shown the conspiracy of Lucy’s family here, which is the first reversal of this film.
The film starts from 51 minutes and 45 seconds to 54 minutes and 15 seconds. It belongs to the dialogue between Kris and the black maid of Lucy’s house. Among them, the black maid uses the close-up face and the upward shot of the face. The gloomy and strange atmosphere has rendered the atmosphere for the behavior of the black maid.
The film’s 68 points or so directly indicate the identity of Ross, in fact, the family is a gang. Here is the second reversal of the movie.
The film starts from 72 minutes and 20 seconds to 73 minutes and 40 seconds contains two symmetrical pictures. The first is that the camera starts to move down from the ceiling, seeing Kris sitting on a sofa in front, with his hands and feet trapped and fixed. The four corners of the plane in the picture are four desk lamps. Kris sits at the intersection of the diagonal lines. Behind Kris is a table tennis table. On the wall behind the table is a dart target. Ball forget and Kris are connected in a line, and the whole picture is in a completely symmetrical pattern. This is to highlight the smallness of the space and the current status of Kris being trapped. The second symmetrical picture was taken from the back of Kris. The lens moved up from the sofa to the wall facing Kris. In the picture, Kris is sitting in the center, with two lamps on both sides. He is facing directly, and a deer head is hanging on the wall (here echoes with the deer that the film began to hit). The symmetry here also indicates that Kris is in danger and may have the same fate as the deer (implying that Kris may lose his head because he is scheduled for a brain swap operation).

REFERENCE

Biography.com Editors. (2019, August 23). Jordan Peele Biography. The Biography.com website. Retrieved from https://www.biography.com/actor/jordan-peele [Accessed 7 January 2020]

IMDb, n.d. Get Out. [image] Available at: <https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5052448/&gt; [Accessed 4 May 2020].

Movieclips Trailers, 2016. Get Out Official Trailer 1 (2017). Available at: <https://youtu.be/DzfpyUB60YY&gt; [Accessed 4 May 2020].

Wisecrack, 2016. The Philosophy Of GET OUT. Available at: <https://youtu.be/9gQP4ffowCY&gt; [Accessed 4 May 2020].