It is easy to identify when a film or a story is deeply rooted in real-life experiences. Get Out, directed by Jordan Peele, is one such narrative. I had been following Peele’s work since his Key and Peele days, but with Get Out, he’s set the bar for the genre so much higher. On one hand, Get Out is hands down one of the most gripping psychological thrillers the world has seen in the past decade, and on the other, it is one of the most fearless explorations of white people’s oppression over people of color. The narrative is linear and fast-paced, which makes pit stops for unnerving events that are bound to make you extremely uncomfortable and outrightly scared. Peele has gone all out with visual motifs, turning every frame into a picture with a thousand words, spotlighting centuries of oppression (that exists even today) through a single narrative in commendable detail and historical accuracy. One such nightmarish visual motif is the “sunken place” where Chris finds himself during the hypnosis therapy performed on him by his white girlfriend’s mother, claiming to help him quit smoking. In this article, we’re examining the sunken place and its inspiration. Story And ThemesFor those who might have missed this Oscar-winning movie (Best Original Screenplay in 2018), Peele’s Get Out follows Chris, a young African-American man, Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya), who goes to spend the weekend at his white girlfriend’s parents’ house, after they invite him under the pretext of an official introductory...
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