Good Morning POU! Our final movie to feature is the biggest one of them all.
Get Out is a 2017 American horror film written and directed by Jordan Peele in his directorial debut. It centers on an African-American who uncovers a disturbing secret when he meets the family of his white girlfriend.
Black photographer Chris Washington reluctantly agrees to meet the family of his white girlfriend, Rose Armitage. During their drive to the family’s countryside estate, they hit a deer. Though Chris was not driving, the white policeman asks for Chris’ identification; Rose intervenes and the incident goes unrecorded.
At the house, Rose’s parents, neurosurgeon Dean and hypnotherapist Missy, and her brother Jeremy make discomfiting comments about black people. Chris witnesses strange behavior from the estate’s black workers: housekeeper Georgina and groundskeeper Walter.
Unable to sleep, Chris goes outside to smoke and sees Walter sprinting through the grounds while Georgina prowls the house. Missy pressures Chris into a hypnotherapy session to cure his smoking addiction. In a trance, he recounts the death of his mother in a hit-and-run when he was a child, expresses guilt, and sinks into a void Missy calls the “sunken place”.
The next day, Georgina unplugs his phone, draining his battery, though she claims it was an accident.
Dozens of wealthy white people arrive for the Armitages’ annual get-together. They express admiration for Chris’s physique and for black figures such as Tiger Woods. Jim Hudson, a blind art dealer, takes particular interest in Chris’s photography skills. Chris meets another black man, Logan King, who acts strangely and is married to a much older white woman.
Chris calls his friend, TSA agent Rod Williams, about the strange behavior at the house.
Chris tries to inconspicuously photograph Logan with his phone, but his flash goes off; Logan becomes hysterical, yelling at Chris to “get out”. The others restrain him and Dean claims Logan had an epileptic seizure.
Away from the house, Chris convinces Rose that they should leave. Meanwhile, Dean holds an auction with a photo of Chris, which Hudson wins. Chris sends the photo of Logan to Rod; Rod recognizes Logan as Andre Hayworth, who has been missing for months. Suspecting a conspiracy, Rod goes to the police, but they deride him.
While Chris packs to leave, he finds photos of Rose in prior relationships with black men, contradicting her claim that Chris is her first black boyfriend. The collection also includes pictures of Rose with Walter and Georgina. He tries to leave the house, but the Armitage family blocks him, including Rose.
He attacks Jeremy, but Missy hypnotizes him.
Chris awakens strapped to a chair in the basement. A video presentation featuring Rose’s grandfather Roman explains that the family transplants the brains of white people into black bodies; the consciousness of the host remains in the sunken place, conscious but powerless. Hudson tells Chris he wants his body so he can gain Chris’s sight and artistic talents.
Chris plugs his ears with cotton stuffing pulled from the chair padding, obstructing the hypnosis. When Jeremy comes to collect him for the surgery, Chris knocks him out. He then impales Dean on the antlers of a deer mount. After stabbing Missy and beating Jeremy to death, he drives away in Jeremy’s car, but hits Georgina. Remembering his mother’s death, he carries Georgina into the car, not realizing she is possessed by Rose’s grandmother Marianne. She attacks him and he crashes, killing her.
Rose apprehends him with Walter, who is possessed by Roman. Chris uses the flash on his phone to expel Roman from Walter. Walter takes Rose’s rifle, shoots her in the stomach, and then shoots himself. Chris begins to strangle Rose, but stops. Rod arrives in an airport police car and rescues Chris, leaving Rose to lie on the road alone as Rod and Chris drive away.
