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the-everqueen · 1 year ago

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so i watched "get out" over halloween, and yes, it's brilliant, yes, Jordan Peele is a horror genius, yes, i'm glad it got so many accolades but also...i still like "us" better and i feel like "us" flew under the radar compared to "get out" and "nope," and it feels very much like (white) audiences need to be spoon-fed metaphors about race and its points of intersection or else they don't engage.

#horror tag #like...i remember seeing ppl discourse about how ''get out'' wasn't ''just'' about race #and obviously plenty of ppl missed the commentary in ''nope''#and i'm just.#irl i am so much more patient #and i want to be more patient online with encouraging ppl's media literacy #but also are you fucking stupid???#''get out'' literally spells out the metaphor #''nope'' LITERALLY talks about black people in relation to hyper/non/visibility #and then i feel like ''us'' did something REALLY fun with class/race intersections and double consciousness #and it's back to horror 101 explaining to ppl how horror tropes work

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