Anna Daniels
Jordan Peele’s impeccable 2017 directorial debut Get Out — which went on to make Peele the first ever African American filmmaker to win an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay — wowed audiences with its layered, complex plot. In the film, when Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) goes to visit his girlfriend Rose’s (Allison Williams) family for a weekend, he’s worried at first that her white family might not take kindly to him; ultimately, they like him way too much, as it turns out that the family’s intense fetishism has led to them taking black bodies and claiming them for themselves.
The procedure, which places the mind of a wealthy white person inside the body of a black captive, requires hypnosis, which is always performed by Missy (Catherine Keener), Rose’s mother. Though you don’t find out about Missy’s hypnotic talents until partway through the film, on your second viewing, you might be able to catch a clue: when she bumps her spoon on a teacup in the beginning of the movie, the housekeeper, Georgina (Betty Gabriel) momentarily wakes from her slumber. That’s just the tip of Peele’s Easter egg iceberg, however; from the song in the opening credits (which, in Swahili, urges the listener to “run”) to a clever ruse by Rose at the film’s start, Get Out offers a plethora of small details cleverly placed there by Peele.
Written by: Looper
