Just saw "Get Out". Some thoughts. (Spoilers) [View all]

1. It's really important that the family was white liberals. That's in fact the entire point. That wasn't an act on their part; that was part of the allegory.

2. While the comparison to slavery is apt fewer people have talked about how much it's also about cultural appropriation -- these are white people who want what they perceive as the "advantages" of blackness (in the art dealer's case specifically, the ability to create art).

2a. Bradley Whitford's spiel about going to Bali and how awesome it is to experience another culture gets to that.

3. I spent the first half of the movie convinced there was an Armitage/Amistad connection, but I think I gave up on that when I remembered "Armitage" means "hermitage" or "temporary home for itinerants". Still not sure.

4. There's something very chilling about when Rod describes the situation to the detective, and is literally describing how slavery happened in the US

5. Stephen Root (the blind guy, also Milton on Office Space and the boss on News Radio) is the greatest character actor of all time. This is also his second role as a blind person; he played one in "O Brother Where Art Thou" as well.

6. Why do we cast black British actors much more readily than black American actors? Nothing at all against Kaluuya (his performance was epic) but it's something Hollywood should think about.

7. I have never in my life seen a sip of milk as creepy as Rose's

8. Not sure why the one person who was neither white nor black was East Asian, unless it's about yet another ethnic group cutting in line to achieve whiteness in the US