Jordan Peele

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Director Jordan Peele’s Get Out is a modern-day horror film that focuses on the racial injustice that Black Americans have and still experience to this day. The story follows Chris Washington, a black photographer, on his disturbingly twisted journey of meeting his white girlfriend Rose Armitage’s family. Here he makes the sickening discovery of their horrific business of selling black bodies and implanting old or disabled white individuals’ brains into them. The horror of Get Out is something that can be seen quite readily in the uniquely terrifying way in which people of color are manipulated and abused. An important aspect of the film that is often overlooked is the way Peele makes use of humor in the scenes. The humorous aspects are often …show more content…
Rod once again becomes a key figure in creating this feeling throughout the narrative. He consistently has an uneasy feeling surrounding the choice Chris makes to not only go meet Rose’s family but also to stay with them and he expresses this readily to Chris. Humor that humanizes is seen specifically when Rod freaks out after Chris is hypnotized and starts screaming at him that the family probably makes black people their sex slaves. This is clearly an entertaining scene, though it also makes the experience feel all that more real, not because Rod is not entirely far off, but because it mocks something that a friend would truly yell at you when you have made a questionable decision. In this way, as Heneks writes, it presents Rod as the embodiment of “the horror movie audience, and more specifically, he embodies the black horror audience member who regularly watches the black character die first,” (Heneks 938). This develops an uneasiness among viewers as they start to question how far off this is from the reality they live in, that maybe, just maybe, the film is not that …show more content…
Some may even be able to imagine a friend screaming at them “this situation is creepy, run!” in a part joking, part serious tone (just like Rod). With that experience, people will walk away from the film with a need to critically analyze it and see how in many ways the core of the story is real. That the level of racism and the terror connected to it is real. Humor is not always a typical aspect of the genre of horror, but when it is done well it can be very influential in the way the movie is developed and plays out in the lives of the viewer after they have left the theater. Even when carefully crafted into the story, humor in horror still creates a very clear level of juxtaposition as the two genres remain on opposite sides of the spectrum. The comedic content is used to entertain and allow for a chuckle here and there, but in the tense moments it is typically coupled with, it is meant to show just how insane the situations feel. How scary it is that to cope one may resort to joking or laughing about it to help disconnect from the all-consuming
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