{"id":44652,"date":"2017-05-15T20:18:42","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T00:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44652"},"modified":"2020-08-01T20:18:54","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T00:18:54","slug":"thoughts-on-get-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44652","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on Get Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Recently, I just watched the film Get Out,<\/em> which came highly recommended by just about everyone.\u00a0 Needless to say, when everyone is saying it\u2019s a great movie, and then you start seeing\/reading things about how it\u2019s getting rave reviews, most notably the 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, then the bar is being set onto some skeptically high heights.<\/span><\/p>\n

To cut to the chase, I did think Get Out was a really good movie.\u00a0 It\u2019s well acted, thought-provoking, with great timing on comedic moments to break the tension and levity of the constantly escalating conflict of the story, with some pretty good twists because everyone loves twists in the plot.<\/span><\/p>\n

Worthy of a certifiable fresh rating on snarky websites like Rotten Tomatoes? \u00a0Definitely.\u00a0 But to be given the sheer volume of critical response it received?\u00a0 I think it\u2019s a little overblown.\u00a0 Frankly, after the film ended, I couldn\u2019t help but feel like, especially given the sheer nature of the entire film, that there\u2019s a prevalent aftertaste of white guilt involved in how the film was so universally acclaimed.\u00a0 I feel like I could see clear as day the irony of a film that touches on white guilt on almost an anthropological way is applauded by the vastly white majority of popular media, who watched it undoubtedly in an anthropological manner.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a very good movie, don\u2019t get me wrong, and I would love to see what Jordan Peele does next in the future.\u00a0 But maybe it\u2019s because I\u2019m in a minority group substantially more minor than blacks in American society that I just don\u2019t see anything about how white people treat black people for me to be apologetically lenient with my judgment of a film over.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently, I just watched the film Get Out, which came highly recommended by just about everyone.\u00a0 Needless to say, when everyone is saying it\u2019s a great movie, and then you start seeing\/reading things about how it\u2019s getting rave reviews, most notably the 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, then the bar is being set onto some … Continue reading Thoughts on Get Out<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[41,83,89],"class_list":["post-44652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-movies","tag-observations","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44654,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44652\/revisions\/44654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}