Get Out

Jordan Peele: Get Out (US 2019) starring Daniel Kaluuya as Chris Washington.

Get Out / Get Out .
    US © 2019 Universal Studios. PC: Blumhouse Productions / QC Entertainment. P: Jason Blum, Edward H. Hamm, Jr., Sean McKittrick, Jordan Peele.
    D+SC: Jordan Peele. DP: Toby Oliver – colour – 2.39:1 – source format: CFast 2.0 – ProRes 4444 (3.2K) – master format: 2K. PD: Rusty Smith. AD: Chris Craine. Set dec: Leonard R. Spears. Cost: Nadine Haders. Makeup: Remi Savva. Hair: Voni Hinkle, Carl Variste (Fairhope). SFX: Ryan Cox. VFX: Ingenuity Studios. M: Michael Abels. S: Trevor Gates. ED: Gregory Plotkin. Casting: Terri Taylor.
    CAST (copied from Wikipedia):
Daniel Kaluuya as Chris Washington
Zailand Adams as 11-year-old Chris
Allison Williams as Rose Armitage
Bradley Whitford as Dean Armitage
Caleb Landry Jones as Jeremy Armitage
Stephen Root as Jim Hudson
Lakeith Stanfield as Andre Hayworth / Logan King
Catherine Keener as Missy Armitage
Lil Rel Howery as TSA Agent Rod Williams, Chris's best friend
Erika Alexander as Detective Latoya
Marcus Henderson as Walter
Betty Gabriel as Georgina
Richard Herd as Roman Armitage
Keegan-Michael Key as NCAA Prospect
Writer-director Jordan Peele voices the sounds made by the wounded deer, and narrates a UNCF commercial.
[NCAA = National Collegiate Athletic Association, UNCF = United Negro College Fund, TSA = Transport Security Administration].
    Loc: Alabama, USA.
    104 min
    Festival premiere: 23 Jan 2017 Sundance Film Festival
    US and Canada premiere: 24 Feb 2017
    Finnish premiere: 5 May 2017, released by Finnkino.
    Blu-ray edition (Universal 2018) with 14 subtitles, bonus features and commentary tracks.
    Blu-ray viewed at home with English subtitles on a 4K tv set in Lappeenranta, 11 June 2021.

AA: In his debut feature film, Jordan Peele rises to the stratosphere of Alfred Hitchcock, Roman Polanski and David Lynch.

Get Out belongs to the horror film's new wave that started around 2014 and on which Jason Zineman wrote an insightful essay, "Home Is Where the Horror Is" in The New York Times. I have seen too few of these films, but among the ones I have seen, Get Out stands out.

Zineman observes that many new wave horror films proceed in the context of the family, the house, and the home. The concept of "the uncanny" ("das Unheimliche"), developed by Ernst Jentsch and Sigmund Freud, inspired by E. T. A. Hoffmann and F. W. J. Schelling is particularly rewarding in discussing these films.

Jordan Peele introduces a new disturbing angle to the uncanny. There is a family, a house, and a home here, too, in the familiar literal meaning. But Get Out is also about the United States as a home, a homeland, a motherland. In Get Out, the United States appears as a horror movie from the Black point of view.

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Starting from the first shot Jordan Peele creates an irresistible tension and drive. Get Out bears the hallmark of the best horror movies of a genuine feeling of a compelling inner urge, an ability to reach beyond consciousness and awareness.

In the beginning there are situations like in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and Meet the Parents. A liberal, unprejudiced family who would have voted Obama for a third term. But nothing is what it seems.

The hypnosis sequences are extraordinary. The mind trip leads Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) to a "sunken place". Another anthology piece is the bingo lottery, in which the winner is the blind art dealer Jim Hudson. The prize is Chris, master photographer.

There are aspects of Donovan's Brain, Seconds, Rosemary's Baby and The Stepford Wives in the story, but Jordan Peele's touch is original and irresistible. As a horror movie, Get Out delivers, and Peele excels both in memorable detail and the profound subtext. The moments of shock are organic to the whole.

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I have been aware since the premiere that Get Out is a film I need to see, but I have been waiting for the right moment. I thank Mirkka Kallio for making it happen.

SOUNDTRACK LISTING FROM THE IMDB:
SOUNDTRACK LISTING FROM THE IMDB:

" Run Rabbit Run "
Written by Ralph T. Butler and Noel Gay
Performed by Flanagan and Allen
Courtesy of Decca Music Group Limited
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises

" Redbone "
Written by Donald Glover and Ludwig Göransson
Performed by Donald Glover (as Childish Gambino)
Courtesy of Glassnote Entertainment Group, LLC

" (I've Had) The Time Of My Life "
Written by John DeNicola, Donald Markowitz and Franke Previte
Performed by Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes
Courtesy of RCA Records
By arrangement with Sony Music Licensing

FINNKINO PRESS SYNOPSIS

Get Out on tiivistunnelmainen trilleri, jossa afroamerikkalaisen nuorukaisen vierailu hänen valkoihoisen tyttöystävänsä vanhempien luona saa pahaenteisen käänteen.

Chrisin (Daniel Kaluuya, Sicario) ja Rosen (Allison Williams, Girls) suhde on edennyt siihen pisteeseen, että on aika tavata puolison perhe. Niinpä nuoripari lähtee viikonloppulomalle Rosen vanhempien Missyn (Catherine Keener, Captain Phillips) ja Deanin (Bradley Whitford, The Cabin in the Woods) luokse.

Aluksi Chris tulkitsee Rosen perheen yltiöystävällisen käytöksen johtuvan siitä, että he yrittävät hermostuneesti hyväksyä tyttärensä suhteen erirotuiseen mieheen. Viikonlopun edetessä sarja toinen toistaan häiritsevämpiä paljastuksia kuitenkin johdattaa hänet käsittämättömän totuuden äärelle.

Get Out on yhtä lailla vangitseva kauhuelokuva kuin provokatiivinen kannanottokin. Jordan Peelen (Key and Peele) ohjaaman ja kirjoittaman elokuvan ovat tuottaneet hänen itsensä ohella Blumhousen Jason Blum sekä Sean McKittrick (Donnie Darko, Bad Words) ja Edward H. Hamm Jr. (Bad Words). Muissa osissa nähdään Caleb Landry Jones, Stephen Root, Milton ”Lil Rel” Howery, Betty Gabriel, Marcus Henderson ja Lakeith Stanfield.