 just saw get out earlier this afternoon and boy do I have do I have mixed feelings about it all very intense the the short version is the first half of this film is one of the most perfectly crafted cinema experiences I've ever seen I use the word crafted very deliberately there because it was beat-for-beat moment-for-moment perfect one of the most perfect allegories for racism that I mean I've never imagined such a thing being so so perfectly made and getting its message across so perfectly I keep having to use the word perfect but the end of the film turned into Friday the 13th and then it ended on a joke a ha ha funny joke and I felt cheated so that's the short version for people who have not seen the film I still recommend it the things that the film has going for it are so strong that I think everybody should see it and I recommend it because of that now for a longer analysis like I said this movie every moment perfect I'm not all that familiar with Jordan Peele's work I know he's one of the members of the the comedy team key and Peele I've never seen their TV show but I know their reputation and every clip I've seen from their show I've come away thinking wow that was excellent satire that was really excellent satire well this movie is satire in the sense that it contains so much truth in an allegorical sense it boy it's really difficult to explain because of such a visual and emotional experience if you've seen the trailer and you should you if you're like me you'll come away from it thinking wow they they showed me too much in the movie just then well no they didn't there's a great deal more to the movie than is in the trailer so go ahead and watch the trailer and you'll get an idea of what kind of really severe deep cutting they're doing here to get across their point about racism this film has done an astonishingly beautiful job of illustrating how the the problem of institutionalized racism is not separate from personal racism that the the the little constant everyday examples of what we would call benign racism really are the root of the institutionalized racism and the the institution uses that as a way to strengthen itself and to keep alive and that the people we always talk about institutionalized racism as an institution and it is literally and in this film it wow it illustrates so well that the people who run the quote unquote institution they're not racist accidentally it's not just a symptom they're doing it deliberately they know what they're doing I was sitting there through the first half of this film with my eyes glued to the screen just in astonishment at how good this movie was how every performance not just the direction not just the editing but every performance of every person who appears in this film their performances are perfect exactly perfect I didn't see any moments in this film that I thought were out of place or clumsy or that I would have done different I was completely caught up in it how good this is you see that picture of the guy on the poster with that that look of despair of total despair and shock on his face and how good just that that one picture is on that poster just there are multiple performances like that in this film good Lord they're good so I was I was thinking as I was watching this film how this is great and I have no idea where it's gonna go I have no idea what's gonna happen and then it moved into a different area entirely and I was thinking okay it's keeping up with the the allegory with with the storytelling representing actual real world problems this is moving into an area of the rich versus not only minorities but the rest of us and the problems of the older generation stealing from the younger generations and I was thinking wow this is this is getting bigger this is getting bigger and I still don't know where it's going and like I said at the beginning it turned into just a horror movie and but it still could have been saved except for right at the very end I mean the very last moment of the film there was a joke the the goofy comic really friend there was a haha joke and I sat back and I was like really really so so this although I'm still astonished at how good this film is and and how how much how strongly I recommend that everyone see it and talk about what they've seen seriously talk about what you've seen in this film it's unfortunately it's another example of a creator whether it's a book author or a filmmaker making a promise with the beginning of the the project and then dropping the ball but this now see I could be wrong I could be this movie was so perfectly crafted every second of this film was so meticulously made that I have to wonder did did Jordan Peel here did he do this on purpose and I'm wondering if he did it on purpose what was his purpose because what happened to me was in the first half of the film I was completely caught up in the horror of institutionalized racism I was I was terrified for this guy and I was seeing and the fact that this movie was released today released now with the things that are happening in the USA and in the rest of the world consequently today I was seeing allegories for all the rest of us the title get out it's really meaningful and and I was really caught up in those thoughts and in the the the messages that that he was clearly shooting for and then thinking about them as the film was going on but by the end of the film I had forgotten all that and I was caught up in the chase and the escape and then at the end there was that oh haha he got away everything's fine haha and after my initial disappointment as I was thinking about it on the bus ride home I was thinking you know what maybe that's exactly what he manipulated me into maybe he understood that that's how the movie would be accepted by audiences that the film was so well made I have to wonder did Jordan Peele do that on purpose I'm gonna wonder about that until I hear him say it