Society in Get out Flashcards
Police brutality
-Trayvon Martin, Tanir Rice and Michael brown were both young black men killed by the us police circa 2014
- In 2014 Jordan peele was just beginning to write Get out.
- These deaths sparked public outrage and protests, this shows the public’s want for a film like get out
-Chris’s experience of Racism is unrealistic and dramatised e.g Black people having involuntary brain transplants.
-However it served its purpose as a stark reminder of the experiences of less overt, under the radar racism that black Americans still very much experienced when the film was released in 2017
- Peele’s unique way of communicating the prejudice that black Americans experience makes a white and/or international audience pay attention to these issues
Traffic Cop
- The officers racism is indirect and non violent, his racism is subtle just as the films overall tone
-Rose attempts to call out the officers prejudice, this follows the common Hollywood trope of the ‘white saviour”, creating further feelings of trust between not only Chris and rose but rose and the audience
-if rose will call out the racist cop surely she has no idea about the racism within the armature house, this makes her reveal at the end, all the more shocking for viewers
Post-racial society/Obama presidency
-Barack Obama, first black president, in office 2008-2016
-with the films release being only a year after Obamas final year in office, many Americans thought racism was an issue long solved, which further emphasised the need for the films reminder that racism has most defiantly been solved.
-“ I would vote for Obama for a third time if I could” Dean uses the Obama presidency to subtly hide his prejudice.
-“black is in fashion” & “I know tiger” people at party
-Trumps controversial and much protested time in office began also in 2016, a year before the films release, Many Americans viewed trump as the worst possible option, he was and is seen as racist and prejudice.
-both of these factors combined served as setting the scene of get out, with some Americans thinking they live in a post racial society while many Americans think that Racism is still at the forefront of American society with the most powerful man in America being viewed as racist.
