Horror-Sci-fi and racial prejudices, Get Out is Ranjan's recommendation for the week

Every once in a while comes a film that uses the conventions of a particular genre, not necessarily to subvert it but to put it to use for a concern that deeply affects the director and has got something to say. Three-film-old African-American director Jordan Peele proclaimed his arrival with GET OUT (2017), a horror film, and uses the genre to examine deep-rooted racial prejudice that still exists in the US. A young black is driven by her white girlfriend to meet her parents at their mansion in the countryside; the parents are liberal and express no awkwardness, but gradually things begin to take an ugly turn that morphs into a quasi science fiction-horror territory.

GET OUT (2017) strikes a fine balance between popular storytelling format and social concern, and since its release has achieved cult status; it also fetched the debutant director an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and is counted amongst ‘study films’ for screenplay writing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzfpyUB60YY

Check it out on Amazon Prime Video.

Ranjan Das is a Mumbai based filmmaker & faculty.