#so yeah i agree dont objectify trans people

[rainbowgod666]

Eh

A reminder from an annoyed trans person:

JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE ATTRACTED TO TRANS PEOPLE DOES NOT MEAN YOU ARE NOT TRANSPHOBIC. IF YOU USE OUR IDENTITY AGAINST US AT ANY POINT, YOU ARE BEING TRANSPHOBIC.

DONT PRETEND YOU ARE A SAFE PERSON IF YOU WILL ONLY REFER TO US CORRECTLY US WHEN YOU ARENT UPSET WITH US.

[nebulawriter]

Classic Reviews: Get Out

So I am seeing a movie this week, but its not in theaters yet, so my review will come when it hits. So we’re doing another classic review instead, and maybe I’ll double up regular reviews in a couple weeks.

Get out is not exactly a classic in the traditional sense, but it IS a movie I should have seen a while ago, and considering Jordan Peele’s new horror is coming soon, I figure I should see this first. 

I unfortunately do know the big twist of this movie, [SPOILERS] in that the daughter is luring young black men to the house to have white people take over their bodies. I’ve seen a couple clips, but hopefully this will still have some surprises for me. Not too many though. I’m deathly afraid of horror films.

There’s no way to review this as a white person without sounding like the villains, is there? Well, I’ll do my best regardless. Keep in mind I guess that all impressions of what Black people experience in America are obviously what I ASSUME and have tried to LEARN based off the experiences of others, not that that isn’t obvious.

Main Character: Chris was a great ‘average joe’ black man, who is a good person, but knows how the world works. It’s a poignant note in a horror movie with the question of ‘why dont you just go to the cops?’ and its because the cops won’t believe him. That is very possibly what killed his mom, because as a young black boy he was too afraid to go to them until it was absolutely necessary. It’s an incredible take on isolation that is so often in horror films, and relating the isolation black people feel around white people to how a typical horror protagonist might feel among aliens or some other menacing figure. 

Side Characters: Damn Girlfriend was Cold as Ice. I was glad to actually have known the twist watching this because I caught right onto the other black people acting like strange old white people. The ones most interesting to me were the brother and the blind man (I totally forget everyone’s names other than chris and I’m too lazy to go on IMDb). The Grandfather mentioned that the first successful test for coagula happened on ‘his own flesh and blood.’ Like, that was the brother, right? Is that why he was so weird? But I still don’t totally understand so. Hm. As for the blind man, it was an interesting note of how ‘he didn’t care about Chris’s color, just wanted his eyes.’ Which like. Whoo, its not about race to you, but you’re STILL TAKING OVER HIS BODY YOU DICKHOLE. 

Other Characters: ‘Georgina’ Was very interesting to me as the only black WOMAN provided. I think its cool to show that intersection of gender in there. So often the narrative is how black men objectify white women, but this shows the other way around, of how happy these old white ladies are to have their husbands in black bodies, but just with none of the black minds. Georgina, meanwhile was a white woman taking over a black womans body and she was clearly having a lot of trouble. No one in America suffers more than the Black Woman, someone said, and for the most part I agree (theres a whole other conversation in there about intersection with gay and/or trans black women, but thats for another time)

Plot: Okokokok, so, I knew about what the creepy premise of this all was, but the one thing I didn’t know was how Chris actually Got Out, and I was not disappointed. I mean, first of all, so satisfying to watch the white characters die. But the thing that gets me, the reason Chris survived when all the others before him hadn’t was because of the scratches made in the chair from all the victims before him, so he could get to the cotton inside and block out the hypnosis. Do you get it guys? He survived because he PICKED THE COTTON! I don’t KNOW if that was intentional, but given how much symbolism there is in this, I’m assuming that its true, and its a powerful sentiment, for a black man to get his freedom from slavery via a symbol of black slavery. 

Story: White People are Dangerous. I mean its way more intricate than that, but there’s probably a thousand think pieces over the past year analyzing that, so yeah, White People Are Dangerous.

Cinnamontography: The best part is how this made such staples of White American life (some of which I admit to growing up with) So Freaking Creepy. Like on the one hand I felt like I knew these people and on the other they were aliens, and I love it. 

Design: Kinda same as cinematography, really. Just adding to that creep. 

Other: Mmm that music that played whenever the mom used hypnosis was Scary As Shit.